History ETDs

Publication Date

6-3-1968

Abstract

Manuel María de Salcedo--whose full name was Manuel María de la Concepción Josef Agustín Eloy de Salcedo y Quiroga—governed Spanish Texas during the pivotal years of the first two decades of the nineteenth century when determined groups on opposite sides of the providence sought to overturn the royalist structure. From east of the Sabine River in Louisiana, Anglo-American frontiersmen, without fear of restraint by the government to which they owed allegiance, habitually trespassed in Hispanic territory. Hence, the threat of a foreign invasion perennially worried Spanish defenders who normally responded with troops and weapons. In 1810 the revolutionary movement of Father Miguel Hidalgo, south of the Rio Grande, quickly placed Manuel Salcedo’s government in an untenable position of conducting a two-front defense. Further compounding the Texas governor’s problems were the sporadic attacks by Indian mauraders, principally Comanches, on the north.

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Degree Name

History

Department Name

History

First Committee Member (Chair)

Donald Colgett Cutter

Second Committee Member

Illegible

Third Committee Member

Ruben Cobos

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

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