Manuel de Mier y Terán

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In this
Spanish name, the first or paternal surname
is Mier and the second or maternal family name is Terán.
Manuel Mier y Terán
Minister of War and Marine
In office
12 March 1824 – 18 December 1824
PresidentGuadalupe Victoria
(since 10 October 1824)
Preceded byJosé Joaquín de Herrera
Succeeded byJosé Castro
Personal details
BornFebruary 18, 1789 (1789-02-18)
Padilla, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Military service
Allegiance Mexican insurgents

First Mexican Empire

Brigadier General
Battles/warsMexican War of Independence:

Barradas Expedition
:

José Manuel Rafael Simeón de Mier y Terán (February 18, 1789 — July 3, 1832), generally known as Manuel de Mier y Terán, was a noted military and political figure during the Mexican War of Independence and during the era of the First Republic serving in the Mexican congress and as Minister of War.[1] He made an inspection of Texas on behalf of the government and was placed in charge of securing the area after the Mexican government banned further American immigration in 1830.

He was at one point considered a potential candidate for the Mexican presidency. However, health problems and despair over the nation's political situation drove him to commit suicide in 1832 during a revolution against the government of Anastasio Bustamante.

Early career

Mier y Terán studied at Mexico City's

Spanish reconquest of Mexico in 1829.[4][page needed
]

He then served as State Inspector at Veracruz, part of a Mexican mission to England, and director of the Mexican School of Artillery until 1827. The same year, he went to Tamaulipas and Texas.

Inspection of Texas

After gaining the rank of general, Terán headed an expedition to inspect Texas. His main charges were to inspect the boundary between Texas and the United States, make a record of natural resources, and evaluate a policy of preference for European settlement of Texas.[5]

Terán assembled a team of scientists and military advisors and led them first to Laredo in 1828. He recorded a narrative of this trip in his diary, while two members of his expedition—José María de Sánchez y Tapia and Jean Louis Berlandier—maintained their own diaries. They continued and made stops in San Antonio, San Felipe and Gonzales. While they attempted to continue their journey to Nacogdoches, however, illnesses and broken equipment plagued the expedition as they struggled to pull thir wagons over poor roads. When they reached the Trinity River, selected just eight men to cross the river with their horses. He sent the rest of the men back with all the wagons and most of the equipment.[5]

Commandant

After returning to Mexico, General Terán served as second in command to

coup d'etat briefly gave the position to Vicente Guerrero. The next year, another coup elevated Anastasio Bustamante, who named Mier y Terán as his commandant general for the northeastern provinces, giving Terán military and civil authority over the provinces of Coahuila y Tejas, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas
.

Headquartered at the recently renamed city of

Anahuac Disturbances, an uprising that was a precursor to the 1836 Texas Revolution
.

In 1832, during the uprising against president

Padilla, Tamaulipas. It was the same location where Emperor Agustín de Iturbide had been executed in 1824, following his return from exile by the men of General Felipe de la Garza Cisneros. Mier y Terán's remains were buried with Iturbide's as were his wishes.[8]
In 1838, when the emperor's bones were re-interred in Mexico City.

Family

General Terán was the youngest of the three sons of Manuel de Mier y Terán and his wife María Ignacia de Teruel y Llanos.

Legacy

The city of

General Terán in Nuevo León, Mexico, is named in his honor. Ciudad Mier, Tamaulipas, however, was named after Francisco Mier y Torre, the governor of Nuevo León
from 1710 to 1714.

He was also the namesake of Fort Terán on the Neches River in modern Tyler County, Texas.

See also

References

  1. ^ Rodríguez O., Jaime, "Manuel Mier y Terán" in Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture, vol. 4, p. 47. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1997.
  2. ^ Rodríguez O. "Manuel Mier y Terán", p. 47
  3. ^ Krauze, Enriue. Mexico: Biography of Power. New York: Harper Collins 1997, p. 135.
  4. ^ DePalo, William A., Jr. The Mexican National Army, 1822-1852. College Station TX: Texas A&M University Press 1997.
  5. ^ a b McComb, David G. (2015). The City in Texas: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. p. 39–41.
  6. ^ quoted in Green, Stanley C. The Mexican Republic: The First Decade, 1823-1832. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 1987, p. 223.
  7. ^ Green, The Mexican Republic, p. 223.
  8. ^ Krauze, Mexico: Biography of Power, p. 138.

Further reading

  • Cedeño, Reynaldo Sordo. "Manuel de Mier y Terán y la insurgencia en Tehuacán." Historia Mexicana (2009): 137–194.
  • Morton, Ohland. "Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Teran: As It Affected Texas-Mexican Relations." The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 46.1 (1942): 22–47.
  • Morton, Ohland. "Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Terán: As It Affected Texas-Mexican Relations (Continued)." The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 47.2 (1943): 120–142.
  • Morton, Ohland. "Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Terán: As It Affected Texas-Mexican Relations (Continued)." The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 48.2 (1944): 193–218.
  • Morton, Ohland. "Life of General Don Manuel de Mier y Terán: As It Affected Texas-Mexican Relations (Concluded)." The Southwestern Historical Quarterly 48.4 (1945): 499–546.
  • Morton, Ohland. Terán and Texas: A Chapter in Texas-Mexican Relations. Austin: Texas State Historical Association 1948.
  • Ortiz Peralta, Rina. "MANUEL DE MIER Y TERAN: LAS FRONTERAS DE LA NACION." Istoriya 2.6 (2011).
  • Rosenberg, Ana Flaschner. D. Manuel de Mier y Terán durante la Revolución de Independencia. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, 1964.
  • Mier y Terán, Manuel de, and Jean Louis Berlandier. "Proceedings of the Commission on limits to the orders of General Manuel de Miery Teran." (1832).
  • Terán y Mier, Manuel de. Texas by Terán: The diary kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on his 1828 inspection of Texas. trans. John Wheat. Austin: University of Texas Press 2000.

External sources

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