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by the Mexican vessel, Bravo, and the goods of the Hannah
Elizabeth were confiscated after the arms and ammunition had
been thrown overboard. De Le6n and Carvajal valued the cargo
of arms and ammunition at $35,000, but they never obtained
redress from the government for their loss. These two men were
imprisoned at Brazos de Santiago. While enjoying one of their
permitted and guarded promenades, De Le6n managed to escape.
Carvajal then was doubly guarded and later transferred to Mata-
moros for greater security. Through intrigue he was able to
escape while preparations were under way to remove him to
the castle of San Juan de Ulloa in Vera Cruz.13 Carvajal returned
to Texas in time to sign the Goliad Declaration of Independence
on December 2o, 1835. He was elected to the Convention which
declared the independence of Texas on March 2, 1836; neither
of the delegates from Guadalupe Victoria, however, attended the
convention.14
The next time Carvajal was heard of was in 1839 when a
group of American volunteers under his command defeated the
army of the Mexican Centralists near Mier. During the engage-
ment Carvajal received a wound which destroyed the use of his
left arm. No further trace of Carvajal has been found until i846
when he commanded a division of the Mexican army with which
he opposed the invasion of Mexico by the American army. His
military actions seem to be inconsistent. Emmanuel Domenech
explains that Carvajal was fighting with the Mexicans in order
to keep the United States out of northern Mexico so that he
could establish "a little republic" independent of Mexico to be
named "The Republic of Sierra Madre."'5
18Fisher to Austin, November 4, 1835, in William C. Binkley (ed.), Official
Correspondence of the Texan Revolution (2 vols.; New York, 1936), I, 50; Fannin
to Smith, December 11, 1835, in ibid., 186; Fisher to provisional government,
December 17, 1835, in ibid., 2o8-211; Rose, History of Victoria, 111, 154; Victoria
Advocate, September 28, 1934; Alex Dienst, "The Navy of the Republic of Texas,"
Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, XII, 184-190.
14D. W. C. Baker (ed.), Original Narratives of Texas History and Adventure,
A Texas Scrapbook, Made Up of the History, Biography, and Miscellany of Texas
and Its People (New York, 1875), 61-65; Binkley (ed.), Correspondence of Texan
Revolution, I, 467.
15Rose, History of Victoria, 11; Victoria Advocate, September 28, 1934; Em-
manuel Domenech, Missionary Adventures in Texas and Mexico: A Personal Nar-
rative of Six Years Sojourn in Those Regions (London, 1858), 328.204
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