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| I could have published my
notes a few days after I returned from the campaign, but
I was convinced that in order to be impartial I had to
take some time to verify those acts to which I was not an
eyewitness and to obtain more accurate information about
others, important objectives which I achieved by
collecting the daybooks from the various sections that
constituted the army. --José Enrique de
la Peña Narrative
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 El mosquito mexicano,
Tom. 3, num. 87, 3 de febrero de 1837. Newspaper, Genaro
García Collection, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American
Collection, The General Libraries, The University of
Texas at Austin.The February 3, 1837,
issue of the newspaper El mosquito mexicano
contains Peña's plans to publish a review of the Texas
campaign. He noted, however, that it would take him
considerable time to put in order the notes and
observations that were to be based on the diary he had
kept in Texas. Peña died before he could complete his
"noble objective."
(Versión
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Ytinerario de las jornadas
que ha hecho el espresado cuerpo desde la ciudad de San
Luís Potosí el día 17 de Nobiembre de 1835. Autograph
document, José Enrique de la Peña Collection. The daily itinerary for the Texas campaign
of the Battalion of San Luís Potosí contains rich
detail about the battalion's march to Béxar and the
attack on the Alamo. The entry for March 27-28, 1836,
reports the execution of James W. Fannin and his men at
Coleto.
(Versión
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Ejército de Operaciones.
Estado que manifiesta la fuerza efectiva que tienen los
cuerpos que componen el espresado hoy dia de la fecha,
Matamoros, Julio 1, 1836. Autograph document, José
Enrique de la Peña Collection. An
official report on armaments, munitions, uniforms, and
accessories of the Mexican Army of Operations, made at
Matamoros on July 1, 1836. This is one of the collateral
documents that accompany the Peña Narrative as part of
the Peña Collection.
(Versión
en Español)
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| Mexicans, there are the
facts. Judge for yourselves, and let your terrible
verdict fall upon those who may deserve it. That to which
I have been an eyewitness I have narrated faithfully, and
that which I have not witnessed I have verified through
the most circumspect and trustworthy men. --José
Enrique de la Peña Narrative
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José Enrique de la Peña,
La rebelión de Texas; manuscrito inédito de 1836, por
un oficial de Santa Anna. 2nd edition,
Mexico: 1955. Texas Collection Library. Jesús
Sánchez Garza's publication of José Enrique de la
Peña's La Rebelión de Texas first brought Peña's
Narrative to public attention. Significantly, its
subtitle identifies the Narrative as an "unpublished
manuscript of 1836, by an officer of Santa Anna."
(Versión
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José Enrique de la Peña, With
Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the
Revolution. Trans. and ed. by Carmen Perry, College
Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1975. Texas
Collection Library. When Peña's Narrative
was published in English translation in 1975, it created
a controversy among historians and in the general public
about its contents and even its authenticity. Much of the
controversy centered on the Narrative's statement that
Crockett was captured and executed following the Alamo
siege. This description contradicts the idea that
Crockett died in battle.
(Versión
en Español)
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