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Martín Perfecto de Cos

HE FIRST CAME ON THE TEXAS SCENE in September of 1835. Sent by Santa Anna to investigate tax evasion in the town of Anahuac, Cos took a force of 300 to Matagorda Bay and set up a headquarters for himself in San Antonio. From there, he would arrest Santa Anna’s critics and crush the rebellion before it blossomed. Or so he thought.

As it turned out, Cos’s trips to Texas were never what he’d hoped. Emboldened by the recent win at Gonzales, Texas rebels under Stephen F. Austin and Edward Burleson marched to San Antonio expressing support for the 1824 constitution.

Though Cos controlled both San Antonio and the Alamo itself, the rebels had the advantage of knowledge of the territory. The Texians laid siege to San Antonio for more than a month and a few heated fights occurred. For Cos, the siege evaporated his supplies and starved his men and animals.

In December, Cos finally surrendered his position to the rebels. He and his men were allowed passage home after signing terms to Edward Burleson agreeing to retire to the interi

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Martín Perfecto de Cos

General of the Mexican Army

Martín Perfecto de Cos (1800–1 October 1854) was a general for the Mexican army and a politician during the mid-19th century. Born in Veracruz, the son of an attorney, he became an army cadet at the age of 20, a Lieutenant in 1821, and a Brigadier General in 1833.

Cos is perhaps best known as a commander of Mexican forces during the Texas Revolution in the 1830s. In September 1835, he was sent by President-General Antonio López de Santa Anna to investigate the refusal of Texians to pay duties during the Anahuac Disturbances. General Cos dispersed the legislature of Coahuila y Tejas, then in session at Monclova, landed 300 men at Matagorda Bay, established a headquarters in San Antonio, and declared his intention of ending Anglo-American resistance in Texas. He attempted to arrest several Texian critics of Santa Anna, but his demands were resisted; a force of Texians under Stephen F. Austin and Edward Burleson held the Mexican troops for two months in the siege of Béxar until Cos surrendered after an attack led by Benjamin

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Cos, Martín Perfecto De (1800–1854)

Martín Perfecto De Cos (b. 1800; d. 1854), Mexican general. A native of Veracruz, Cos joined the Veracruz regiment in 1820. He became a lieutenant under Augustín de Iturbide during 1821, but supported the formation of a Mexican republic by 1823. After Cos became a general in 1833, President Antonio Lopéz de Santa Anna sent him to control unrest in the North. In December 1835 he lost San Antonio to the Texans. Cos fought at the Alamo (1836) before being captured at San Jacinto in early 1836. Federalists defeated him in battle at Tampico in 1838 and at Tuxpan in 1839. During 1847 he fought against the U.S. Army at Tuxpan. Cos acted as government leader for Tehuantepec before his death.

See alsoMexico: 1810–1910.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Walter Lord, A Time to Stand (1961).

Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836–1841 (1963); "Cos, Martín Perfecto de," in Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (1986).

Alwyn Barr, Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835 (1990).

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