The Siege of Béxar

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Arts, Cabeza De Vaca, The Alamo, Battle Of Medina, San Antonio Missions, Texas, Mexico, Gutierrez-magee, Education, Comanches, Apaches, Society & Culture, San Antonio, Courses, Philosophy, History

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🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In late 1835, Centralists and Federalists clashed in San Antonio over the course of a two-month long siege that culminated in five days of brutal house-to-house fighting. Selected Bibliography Alessio Robles, Vito. Coahuila y Texas en la época colonial (1978). De La Teja, Jesús F., ed. A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (2002). De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to a new history of Old San Antonio.
0:12.9	Episode 16, The Siege of Bear.
0:15.4	I'm Brandon Seale.
0:19.9	I'm a city, San Antonio.
0:23.0	Tonight I'm looking at your lovely life.
0:28.0	San Antonio Mayor Angel Navarro was a moderate man.
0:31.2	Yet the middle, he was discovering, was a perilous place to be.
0:35.0	Navarro had tried to remain loyal to the status quo in 1813, but when word of his
0:38.8	brother Jose Antonio's revolutionary fervor got back to his superiors, they ran him out of the
0:42.8	Spanish army and declared him a traitor. This pushed him into the fold of Mexican Republicans,
0:47.2	and he eventually came to share their federalist constitutional principles, even as he defended
0:51.0	traditional institutions, such as the church and the state. In 1835, the 25th anniversary of Father Idaelgo's famous grito,
0:58.2	he had underwritten the towns di Césés de Septimbre celebration
1:00.8	and used the occasion to counsel patience and restraint to the townsfolk or Vesinos,
1:05.1	even as he personally remained leery of the man who had just made himself dictator
1:08.3	on an anti-federalist platform, Santa Ana.
1:11.8	When Santa Ana's brother-in-law, General Martin Perfecto de Kos, learned of Juan Sagin's plan to ride to the aid of the Federalist in Monclova with 25 volunteers in April of 1835,
1:21.6	the general attempted to nationalize Sagan's San Antonio unit.
1:25.0	He sent the order to Mayor Navarro, who, General Koss continued, would be held personally
1:28.8	responsible if Sagan and his troop were allowed to leave the province.
1:32.6	Navarro, despite his moderate tendencies, refused General Koss's order on principle,
1:36.6	asserting that, quote, the militia depends exclusively on the authorities of the state,
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