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ilies, as Insurgents, whom Arredondo desired to have shot as the prin- cfpal ring leaders of the revolutionists of Bexar. My aforesaid oldest Brother [Jose] Angel, who was at that tim[e a] Lieutenant of In- fantry [in] the Army under Arredondo's Command was depri[ved] of his office with disdain, and he was dismissed [from the?] Royal Service, without pay, and without any kind of di[sc]harge as it was then customary and according t[o t]he Regulations for the Govern- ment of the Armies of the King of Spain; and why? Because ever since the Year of 1813, and particularly since the unfortunate Battle of the Medina, my [Un]ckle Francisco Ruiz, my Brother-in-Law Vera- mendi, my aforesaid Brother Angel, and even ourselves the minors of the family have fallen into a horrid persecution on the part of all the Spanish officers devoted to the cause of their King. The names of Ruiz, Veramendi and Navarro was the mark of ignominy, the alarm of treason, and of all evil t[hat J could be invoked against the holy Cause and the Rights of the King of Spain.-In Augt. 1813, At 18 Years of age I fled to the United States at the time as it is already Stated the Battle of Medina was lost, and with it the last hope of the Mexican Patriots, and the Internal Provinces of Mexico. My Mother, then alone; with the minor Children left Bexar, my oldest Brother Angel, absent from Bexar fleeing in the interior of Mexico from the persecutions of Arredondo, my Uncle Ruiz, my Brother-in-Law, the husband of my sister :M:aria Josefa Veramendi, and myself, may be said wandering, in the State of Louisiana;- be- hold here a family scattered and persecute[d by?] so many disasters- For this reason my younger rbrothers? l and myself have lost the Years of the flowe [r of J our youth, waisting years with- out inpr[oving our]selves, but in participating in the affliction [of ] our forefathers. I, who have had some ideas about the fatal Year of 1813 could scarcely preserve some impe [rfect ?l Knowledge of the little I have formerly acquired by Studying. The King of Spain has already as early as the year of 1815. issued a Proclamation granting Pardon to all the Insurgents of Texas.- Among others my Brother-in-Law, Veramendi and myself have re- turned to Bexar pardoned by the King of Sp [ain J or by Arredondo [in] his Royal name. Veramendi had the pleasure to retur[n to] my Sister, his wife and family; but like Adam [and] the paradise, found his property amounting to upwards of Thirty Thousand Dollars all confiscated, and destroyed by the Kings Officers. In such circumstances all his hap- piness consisted in returning to Texas his native land and obtaining a royal pardon without restitution of his property. No. 2123 [1841 ?, M. B. LAM:ARl SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR? rTEXASJ NOTES ON FIGHT AT MORELOS & CAPTURE OF ., ,L ZAPATA 5 " Information derived from Francisco De la Garza, who was Sargeant in the central forces, now citizens San Fernando.
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