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CHAP. VI.]
MILITARY. POSTS.
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mined to rule the Anglo-Americans (of all people
the most jealous of military interference in their
internal affairs) by the power of the sword.
Military posts were established in the various settled
districts and trading points,-at Nacogdoches,
Bexar, Goliad, Anahuac, Galveston, Velasco, Fort
Teran, Victoria, and Tenoxtitlan. About 1300
Mexican soldiers were distributed at the different
stations. These troops were of the very worst description-composed
of convicts and inferior castes,
whose domineering habits, acquired under the military
oligarchy which preyed upon the interior,
rendered them utterly unfit to mingle with lawrespecting
men. The civil authorities of Texas,
subordinate to the Governor and Legislature of the
State of Coahuila and Texas, were the Political
Chiefs, and the Ayuntamientos of the three jurisdictions
-Bexar, the Brazos, and Nacogdoches. Each
Political Chief presided over the Cabildo, or municipal
council, held in the capital of his district, and
was officially bound to enforce the general laws of
the State within the limits of his command. Bexar,
being especially a Mexican department and the
most extensive of the three, had the honour of
giving a Political Chief to all Texas.
The first collision between the colonists and the
inilitary occurred at Anahuac, a post under the superintendence
of Colonel Bradburn, in the autumn
of 1830. The commandant, an American who
had served in the Mexican revolutionary war, countenanced
and encouraged by the general government,
committed many violent and arbitrary acts.
By order of the Commandant-general, Teran, he
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Kennedy, William. Texas: The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. Volume 2, book, 1841; London, England. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2392/m1/11/: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.