Manuel N. Flores

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Manuel Flores
Juan Seguin, Salvador Flores

Manuel Flores (Jose Manuel Nepomunceno Paublino Flores; ca. 1801–1868) served as a volunteer in the Texas army in 1835–1838. Fighting and commanding, he rose through the ranks to reach sergeant status during the fight for Texas independence and was commissioned a captain during the Republic years.

Family history – early years

Manuel Flores was born in Spanish Texas on June 16, 1799,[Notes 1] in La Villa de San Fernando de Bexar. He was a skilled vaquero and ranchero that lived on the San Antonio River below San Antonio. He married Maria Josefa Courbière in 1835. He married Margarita Garza in 1858.[1]

He was the son of Jose Flores De Abrego and Maria Rodriquez [2][3] They were a prominent family of Bexar, rich in the ranching history of Texas and steeped in the cause of secession from Mexico.[4]

Supporting the 1835–1836 Texas independence movement were four Flores De Abrego sons,[2] Captain Salvador Flores[5] Captain Manuel Flores,[6] Lieutenant Nepomuceno Flores,[7] and Private Jose Maria Flores,[8][9] having participated in the Texas Revolution, serving at Bexar[10] and San Jacinto.[11] Manuel was the brother-in-law of Col. Juan Nepomuceno Seguín.[12]

Texas Revolution

Main article: Texas Revolution

Battle of Gonzales

Anticipating the

Cos.[14]

Siege of Bexar

The attention of the commander of the

Siege of Bexar.[23]

Battle of the Alamo

Seguin stated that he brought 15 men into the Alamo along with him. Lindley believed that the Flores brothers were defending the Alamo some time near the beginning of the siege. Manuel and the volunteers entered the Alamo on February 23.

Siege of Bexar and remained in the Alamo with Colonel James C. Neill. At some point later in the siege, after Seguin's departure as a courier, the Flores brothers exited the Alamo, thus making them survivors of the Alamo siege. In 1907, Alamo survivor Enrique Esparza stated that Santa Anna called an armistice for three days and he remembers the Flores brothers leaving at that time.[25] They had entered the Alamo hastily when the Mexican army arrived and now they took the chance to check on the condition of their families, who had been left alone in their homes. After securing the safety of their families, they regrouped and recruited a few more men from the area, gaining a few more Flores brothers. They then rendezvoused with Seguin in Gonzales. There, the native Texan defenders were joined by other men from Gonzales and proceeded westward to reinforce the Alamo.[26] There, on the Cibolo, they waited to team up with Fannin's army. Fannin never made it to the Cibolo, thus the Alamo fell before they could reach it.[27]

Battle of San Jacinto

A company was reorganized in Gonzales during the first week of March 1836, and Manuel Flores became Captain Seguin's first sergeant.

Tejano company would then join in with Houston and Rusk to overtake Santa Anna's army, in the rout at the Battle of San Jacinto.[33]

Manuel Flores is credited for taking the lead in the final charge against Santa Anna's army at San Jacinto. Although originally a cavalry company, they would fight with Sidney Sherman's force as infantry. José Maria Rodriquez states in his book Memoirs of Early Texas, that during the final charge, the Texans fired and fell to the ground waiting for a volley from the Mexican camp, but Manuel Flores remained standing and challenged the Texican Army to "get up" and follow his lead, for the Mexicans were running. They got up and pursued the Army, taking many prisoners.[34]

Republic of Texas

After the Texas Revolution, he was commissioned as first lieutenant in Company B of the Second Regiment of Cavalry. Next he was commissioned the captain of a cavalry company in defense of the new republic, participating in much the same way a ranger company would.

Flores Falls
in his works Die Kreidebildungen von Texas and ihre organischen Einschlüsse (1852).

In 1842, San Antonio was overrun twice, by

Adrian Woll
attacked San Antonio in September 1842.

Legacy

In later years, the Flores descendants were the ones to donate the land for the establishment of the City in Texas that bears their name: Floresville, Texas.[40]

A Texas State Historical Marker was placed at the Floresville courthouse during the 1986 Texas sesquicentennial. It now stands in honor to Manuel Flores and his family for their service to Texas.

Tejanos who served under Juan Seguín

Tejano volunteers under Juan Seguín

Tejano volunteers under the command of Juan Seguín for all or part of their service in the Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas. Note that Seguin's men at the Alamo were scouts/couriers going in and out, between San Antonio and nearby Gonzales
, the rallying point for volunteers.

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Notes

  1. ^ Birth date most commonly used and referenced in the Handbook of Texas, is 1801
  2. ^ He is often confused with the Mexican emissary also named Manuel Flores, who was killed at the battle of the San Gabriels in 1838.

References

  1. ^ Descendants of Pedro Flores de Abrego by S. Gibson June 24, 2007
  2. ^ a b de la Teja (1991), p. 18.
  3. ^ "Fort Tours - Wilson County Historical Markers". Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  4. ^ Handbook of Texas
  5. ^ SRT77 (2001) Pg.77
  6. ^ a b Handbook of Texas Online, s.v., FLORES, MANUEL [1801-1868] | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), accessed September 28, 2016.
  7. ^ Banks (2001), p. 51.
  8. ^ TAMU Dewitt, Pvt. Jose (Manuel) Maria Flores [1] Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - 2nd Regiment Volunteers 9th Company
  9. ^ 1735 MILITARY ROSTER OF SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR PRESIDIO Bexar Genealogy Flores
  10. ^ Matovina (1995), p. 34.
  11. ^ Texas Historical Society [Marker 5335 Floresville, Texas (1986)]
  12. ^ Groneman (1990), p. 97.
  13. ^ Handbook of Texas
  14. ^ a b de la Teja (1991), p. 77.
  15. ^ a b de la Teja (1991), p. 24.
  16. ^ Tovares (2004), pbs/wgbh/american experience/alamo/timeline/1835 American Experience | Remember the Alamo | Timeline | PBS.
  17. ^ Brands (2005), p. 274.
  18. ^ Edmonson (2000), p. 218.
  19. ^ Handbook of Texas
  20. ^ Handbook of Texas
  21. ^ Barr (1990) p.18
  22. ^ Lindley (2003), p. 133.
  23. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 66.
  24. ^ Lindley (2003), p. 134.
  25. ^ Matovina (1995), p. 82.
  26. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 107.
  27. ^ Groneman (1990), p. 98.
  28. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 136.
  29. ^ Moore (2004), p. 60.
  30. ^ Groneman (1998), p. 98.
  31. ^ Louis W. Kemp, Nepomuceno Flores bio. 1930-1952
  32. ^ TAMU Dewitt (Pvt. Manuel Maria Flores) San Jacinto Veterans-Unit Archived December 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine - 2nd Regiment Volunteers 9th Company
  33. ^ Hardin (1994), pg. 209
  34. ^ Rodriquez (1913), pg. 3–15
  35. ^ Lozano (1985), p. 43.
  36. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 116.
  37. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 94–95.
  38. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 44&117.
  39. ^ de la Teja (1991), p. 118.
  40. ^ "The Flores de Abrego Family and Floresville - Texas Historical Markers on Waymarking.com". Retrieved September 28, 2016.

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