Adrián Woll (December 2, 1795 – February 1875) was a
French Mexican
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general in the army of
Mexico
Mexico ( Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guate ...
during the
Texas Revolution and the military conflict between Mexico and the
Republic of Texas
The Republic of Texas ( es, República de Tejas) was a sovereign state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846, that bordered Mexico, the Republic of the Rio Grande in 1840 (another breakaway republic from M ...
which followed.
Woll was
governor
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of
Tamaulipas
Tamaulipas (), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Tamaulipas ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Tamaulipas), is a state in the northeast region of Mexico; one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 Federal Entiti ...
from May 2, 1853, to January 28, 1855, and had a second term from April 4, 1855, to September 8, 1855.
See also
*
Antonio López de Santa Anna
Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (; 21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,''Handbook of Texas Online'' Retrieved 18 April 2017. usually known as Santa Ann ...
*
Mexican War of Independence
The Mexican War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de México, links=no, 16 September 1810 – 27 September 1821) was an armed conflict and political process resulting in Mexico's independence from Spain. It was not a single, co ...
*
Republic of the Rio Grande
The Republic of the Rio Grande ( es, República del Río Grande) was an independent nation that insurgents fighting against the Centralist Republic of Mexico
sought to establish in northern Mexico. The Republic of the Rio Grande was one of a s ...
References
*''The Second Mexican-Texas War'', Hill Junior College Monograph, Texian Press, Waco, TX, 1972.
*His archives are kept by the French ministry of Foreign affairs (180PAA
External links
Handbook of Texas On-line
Governors of Tamaulipas
People of Mexican side in the Texas Revolution
French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
Mexican military personnel of the Mexican–American War
Mexican generals
1795 births
1875 deaths
Mexican invasions of 1842
Mexican monarchists
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