(TEXAS) López de Santa Anna Antonio Edict ordering the execu

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(TEXAS.) López de Santa Anna, Antonio. Edict ordering the execution of armed foreign invaders, in the midst of the Snively Expedition. [3] printed pages, 8 x 5 1/2 inches, signed in type by José Maria Tornel as Secretary of War with his manuscript paraph below, addressed to the governor of Queretaro below; folds, small paper repair on fore-edge. Bound with 9 other edicts dated 1841-46 in one volume, 4to, modern cloth gilt. Mexico, 17 June 1843

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This Ministry of War edict was issued in reaction to the Snively Expedition, in which 150 Texans embarked on a raid on Mexican commerce in April 1843. Snively's Battalion of Invincibles defeated a small Mexican detachment three days after this edict, but were soon disarmed by the United States Army. "Excoriating foreigners who though by birth are citizens of nations at peace with Mexico, yet invade Mexican territory with gangs of bandits and combat the troops of the republic. The decree orders that all foreigners taken with arms in their hands be immediately shot"--Streeter, Texas 996, who was unable to trace any copies of "either the first separate publication of this for the Central Government or of a republication by any of the Mexican states." One copy in OCLC, and none known at auction.