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Article: SPANIARD OFFERED INSIGHTS ON APACHES.(Local News)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2009
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Byline: MARC SIMMONS
In our state's Spanish archives preserved at Santa Fe can be found a couple of documents signed by Antonio Cordero. At the time he wrote and sent them to New Mexico, in 1808, he was the interim governor of Texas.
Twelve years earlier, however, Lt. Col. Don Antonio Cordero had been commander at the royal presidio in El Paso, which was then within the limits of New Mexico.
From a young age, he had been employed in military service, being assigned to various garrisons as a presidial soldier on the northern frontier of New Spain (Mexico).
It was written that Cordero had fought the Apaches for many years, learned to ...