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(TEXAS & THE MEXICAN WAR.) Gómez Acebo y Cortina, José. El C. Jose Gomez de la Cortina,
A STAY OF EXECUTION FOR TEXAN PRISONERS (TEXAS & THE MEXICAN WAR.) Gómez Acebo y Cortina, José. El C. Jose Gomez de la Cortina, Coronel del Batallon del Comercio y Gobernador del Distrito. Broadside, 394 x 295 mm, irregularly cut. 2 tape stains and red pencil mark, not affecting text. Mexico, 18 April 1836
- Notes: Transcriptions of decrees by acting Mexican president José Justo Corro and his Minister of War, José María Tornel, published with brief closing note by Gómez as Governor of Mexico City. "Substituting perpetual banishment for the death penalty in the case of certain Texan prisoners of war . . . This decree was passed in the flush of victory at the Alamo, applied to those rebellious Texans who surrendered within fifteen days or such greater or lesser time as Santa Anna might fix"--Streeter Mexican imprints 876. Streeter lists only a similar 14 April broadside, but not this one issued by Gómez; not in Palau. Swann sale, 12 November 1981, lot 537.
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