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The Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo
fortune, his life, and his sword, to render service to the king
by going "as a knight-errant with a flint-lock musket to this
war (which it was thought [would be] a very glorious one on
account of those countries not having seen such valiant ene-
mies) ."
The viceroy accepted the offer of the Marquis and conferred
upon him, in the name of the king, the titles of governor and
captain-general of the provinces of Coahuila and Texas.'0 This
action of the viceroy was approved by the king in a royal cedula
of May 26, 1721.11 Appreciation of this royal confirmation
deeply moved the Marquis, who thus addressed himself to the
king:
My good fortune to serve Your Majesty with the general command on
these frontiers of New Spain reached its zenith with the honor that the
royal graciousness of Your Majesty deigned to confer upon me-con-
firming [the viceroy's appointment] in the despatch which Your Majesty
signed in Aranjuez on May 26, 1721-holding it as good that the restora-
tion of Texas, New Kingdom of the Philippines, should have been en-
trusted to my feeble management.12
Upon receipt of the viceroy's commissions, the Marquis of
San Miguel de Aguayo lost no time in beginning preparations
for his expedition. Misfortune and hardships, however, were,
from the outset, to attend many of his efforts and were to be
overcome only by indefatigable persistence. Indeed, the Marquis
himself said, after the consummation of his task:
In connection with the expedition it seems that all hell conspired to
maintain its tyrannical dominion in that far-flung heathen land . . .
Indeed, every major contrast of rigorous weather abetted the diabolical
cunning of the Indians for impeding or obstructing the entrance [of the
expedition]."I
1"The Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo to the King, Coahuila, June
26, 1720, in A. G. I., Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-11, folio 1; the Mar-
quis of San Miguel de Aguayo to the Marquis of Grimaldi, Coahuila,
June 27, 1720, in A. G. I., Audiencia de Guadalajara, 67-3-11. Transcript
in The University of Texas Library.
"Royal cedula; the King to the Viceroy of New Spain, the Marquis
of Valero, Aranjuez, May 26, 1721, in Archivo General de Mexico (here-
inafter referred to as A. G. M.), Secci6n de Historia, vol. 321, folios
69-70. Transcript in The University of Texas Library.
12Report to the King by the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo con-
cerning the reoccupation of the province of Texas, Coahuila, June 13,
1722, in archives of Santa Cruz de Queretaro, K, Legajo 4, N. 10, folio 1.
Transcript in The University of Texas Library.
3Ilbid.; see also the Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo to the Marquis
of Grimaldi, Coahuila, June 13, 1722, in A. G. I., Audiencia de Guadala-
jara, 67-3-11. Transcript in The University of Texas Library.201
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