(MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS) Comisionados del Rey José Napoleon en

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(MEXICAN MANUSCRIPTS.) Comisionados del Rey José Napoleon en las dos Americas. 5 manuscript pages, 12 x 8 1/4 inches, on 2 sheets; moderate dampstaining. Chihuahua, Mexico, 1 May 1810

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In 1808, Joseph Bonaparte was appointed by Napoleon as King José I of Spain and the Indies, which was widely resisted by loyalists to the Bourbon throne. Offered here is a confidential annotated list of Bonaparte's agents in the Spanish Americas who had been sent to encourage loyalty to the new king. Resistance was widespread, and one of these agents was shot upon his discovery in Havana. See Palacio Fajardo, Outline of the Revolution in Spanish America, pages 79-87. The present copy of the agent list was made in Chihuahua on 1 May 1810 from another copy that had been made in Mexico on 18 April. It concludes with an envoy who left Baltimore to establish himself in the borderlands of Louisiana to contact Germans there with the intention of forming a communication with Mexico, and another Spaniard who had been deployed from Georgia to Florida.