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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. Letterpress broadside, 12 x 8 1/4 inches, signed in type by Isidro Reyes as governor of Puebla; moderate worming, stitch holes in left margin, missing an inch from the upper right corner. Mexico, 20 July 1843
This 17 June 1843 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." Offered here is a Puebla state printing.
