Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan.: Searching Inside

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... 26 BIOGRAPHY OF of San Antonio went with them*; among them the notorious traitor, JUAN N. SEGUIN... being killed. General WOLL retreated from San Antonio on the 18th, many Mexican citizens also... entrance. The news of this invasion and plundering of San Antonio was received in the city of Mexico... invasion was on the 11th of September the same year, when General ADRIAN WOLL marched at daybreak, into San... Antonio at the head of twelve hundred men. There being no troops in the town, no opposition was offered

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... was generally called by the simple and ignorant population of San Antonio, on account of his birth,) had seven... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. PART FIRST. DON ANGEL NAVARRO, the father of the subject of this memoir..., and after serving many years in Europe, when, on his regiment being ordered to Mexico, and stationed in San... Antonio de Bexar, a province of Texas, tired with military pursuits; he resigned his commission... being he with whose history we are more particularly interested, DoN Jose ANTONIO NAVARRO. At the time

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... fellow citizens, that by universal acclamation they named him the Mentor of San Antonio. In the year 1821..., he was introduced for the first time to the lamented Texan patriot, STEPIEN F. AUSTIN, in San Antonio... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 9 or if he would be a laughing. stock to everybody. "No, my son," answered... strength which always compel respect." Jose ANTONIO, comforted by the advice and animated... and continued interviews between them, and conferences on the situation of public affairs, ensued. Jose ANTONIO

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..., marched in triumph into San Antonio. Here commenced a scene of barbarity which that place had never before... of San Antonio,annd was tauntingly called the Quinta (the garden). Here were imprisoned five hundred... at a low ebb, he returned to San Antonio, his widowed mother having in the meantime succeeded ill securing

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... and continued to live till 1865, when he finally returned to San Antonio. It seems that this man, far from..., till its conclusion, when he returned to San Antonio. There are some coincidences so curious... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 29 PART FOURTH. AVARRO was elected Senator in the First Legislature... on his long imprisonment in Mexico. He lived at his rancho on the San Geronimo till the year 1854, when

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... 4 BIOGRAPI-Y OF offered them of acquiring a thorough education; and as San Antonio de Bexar..., a city made famous as having given birth to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. Jose ANTONIO NAVARRO was born in San... Antonio de Bexar, the 27th of February, 1795. At this time his father, though largely engaged... in contra-distinction to exaggeration. Joss ANTONIO manifested, at an early age, a hilgh splritedness, an almost worship

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..., magnanimous enough to offer this tribute of respect to the honorable patriot. NAVARRO was then in San Antonio... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 13 ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF TIIE STATE I OF COAIHUILA AND TEXAS. We have... MARIANO GORRIBAR, Secretary. SENOR DON JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. One sees then that our patriot was elected... outside of the State; but despairing of this, the people had summoned a convention to meet at San Felipe

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... education. After pursuing his studies for a few years, his father brought him back to San Antonio and placed... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 5)-1 and gently kissing his forehead, would say to him: "My darling son, I... of my ancestors; but I doubt not that I am leaving in my children, and particularly in you, Jose ANTONIO...." "Not without self-pride I tell this to my son, Jos6 ANTONIO," added Dox ANGEL, addressing his wife..., Jos6 ANTONIO was sent to one of the most liberal schools in Saltillo, Mexico, where, though his

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... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 27 ringing of bells, and shouts of the populace entirely drowned his voice... the lips of DON ANTONIO himself, and the documents still exist irt Mexico, showing that the courier of Gen... for this decision, and sent NAVARRO to a damp and fetid cell in the castle of San Juan de Uloa, after having been... provided him with nothing to eat. In San Juan de Uloa he was incarcerated fourteen months more, when

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... were unanimously elected delegates from San Antonio. NAVARRO fluctuated between his ardent aspirations... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 17 ber, a little band of forty-eight patriots, led by Captain GEORGE... assembled in a General Convention, at Washington, in Texas. PART THIRD. OLONEL RUIZ and JosE ANTONIO NAVARRO

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... residence in San Antonio the 13th of January, 1871, at half past one in the morning, at the ripe age of 76... of what appeared to be an unconnected chain of merely casual events. Jose ANTONIO NAVARRO died at his

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..., and reaching San. Antonio in July of the same year, the two llad the pleasure of making the wearisome journey.... In the year 1827, Jose ANTONIO NAVARRO was elected a Representative from Texas to the Legislature in Saltillo

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... VASQUEZ, with a force of seven hundred men, appeared before San Antonio, and demanded a surrender... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. wealth on the ruin and demoralization of his fellow-citizens. Let me tell

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... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 21 patriot, who was taken first to the prison of Acordada, where he... under such an humble roof, lived to attain such glorious results. We have heard DON JOSE ANTONIO himself... party, to the interior, from San Miguel del Vado, starting on the 18th of October the same year. He

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... passed through on his way to San Antonio, he received renewed proofs of general esteem

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... to his call, he fled with a small escort to San Antonio, bearing with him the archives of the State. He

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... to burst out in a general conflagration from the Sabinas to the San Antonio and the Medina; the door

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... JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO. 7 Now, we can imagine this youth returned to his native country, having... of DoN ANGEL, the Corsican, had ceased to exist, and ANTONIO and his brothers found themselves regarded... the existing Government. Finding this to be the case, Jose ANTONIO, for the time being eschewing all... the cry of Mexican Independence in 1821. ANTONIO and all his brothers again rallied to the standard; one... of them proclaimed ITURBIDE's plan of Independence in Bexar. ANTONIO MARIA MARTINEZ, the Governor

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... upon them, and the patriotic Mexican Colonel FPANCISCO RIRIz, an uncle of ANTONIO'S, who had been... of the foremost champions in the cause of Texas, and was a member of the Texas Convention in 1836. ANTONIO... to his country and his fellow man. But let us follow the steps of Jos6 ANTONIO, and we must go slowly

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... JOSE ANTONIO NAVAIRlJO. 15 honor. By the express order of the same honorable body... GRANT, ( "To thle Citizen JOSE ANTONIO NAVARRO." This honorable and lucrative