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Francisco Amangual, Trustee of the Presidio: Administration, Dereliction, and the Flying Squadrons in the Comandancia General, 1680-1810
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Series: Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
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ISBN13: 9781648431463
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: Oct 30 2024
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.00
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
. . . a fine addition to the historiography of the borderlands. It should interest students, scholars, researchers, and history enthusiasts interested in learning more about the challenges and opportunities of military service in the northern fringes of the Spanish Empire.--American Historical Review
. . . a significant text for several reasons. It highlights the independent nature of soldiers on the Texas frontier, introduces new archival sources, and offers insight into the interactions among soldiers of different ranks. It also simplifies complex legal cases, making them more accessible to researchers.--Southwestern Historical Quarterly
. . . reevaluates the traditional view of the workings of the presidio in the Texas borderlands with a fine-grained examination of a veritable mountain of archival sources. It should be read by any serious scholar of Spain in the Southwest.--Western Historical Quarterly
Historian Roland RodrÃguez explores the military career of Captain Francisco Amangual (1739-1810) whose presence in the presidial hierarchy included active participation in convoys, skirmishes, and routine, day-to-day administration. The main thrust of the narrative examines Amangual's tenure as the presidio paymaster (habilitado) for Béxar, Texas, from 1788 to 1793. Amangual and his cohorts generated voluminous documentation including stockpiles, litigious actions, correspondence, military service records, criminal investigations, and monthly company reports. Their interactions with Native polities, civilians, and fellow soldiers illuminate the overarching administrative functions fulfilled by the paymaster in New Spain's Comandancia General. Drawn from a wide cross-section of archival sources, RodrÃguez's approach foregrounds the significance of the borderland's operatives, documenting the seemingly mundane activities of life in the garrison and the more harrowing episodes of soldiering. What we are left with today from their writings is a unique body of literature about army life in the periphery. This case study aims to project onto the stage of presidio history one lesser-known actor's role as an unapologetic navigator of complex bureaucratic obligations even as he soldiered on during the empire's twilight. A secondary but no less important focus of the book examines the evolution of the so-called flying squadrons (compañÃas volantes), a kind of make-ready cavalry unit in the Provincias Internas.The volantes evolved as a specialized contingent charged with surveilling New Spain's frontiers. Late in life, Amangual headed the San Carlos de Parras company. In much the same way as it brings Amangual's multi-faceted career to light, the book assigns a cogent place to the complicated history of the flying squadrons. In doing so, the narrative presents a critical reevaluation of the colonial presidio experience.
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