Anastasio Bustamante
Anastasio Bustamante there Oseguera (Jiquilpan, July 27th 1780 - San Miguel of Allende, February 6th 1853), doctor, general, then vice-president of Vicente Guerrero and three times President of the Mexico.
Biography
When in September 1810, Miguel Hidalgo pushes her famous Grito de Dolores, the first call to the independence of Mexico, which put at fire and blood the News-Spain, Bustamente, thirty years old, then exerts the medical profession to Guadalajara.
Forced to join the Spaniards, against its risen fellow-citizens, it is useful under the orders of the general Felix María Calleja del Rey, and takes part in the Bataille of the bridge Calderon, the January 17th 1811. Bustamante is distinguished at the time of this battle which marks the beginning of its military success. It is then named colonel.
He becomes general after being himself rejoined, in 1821, with the general Iturbide, future emperor of Mexico, and until its abdication in 1823 will remain to him faithful. It is then the general Guadalupe Victoria who becomes the first president of the Mexican Republic.
Until 1828, Bustamante takes an active share in the businesses of the State. In December 1829, it orders a division stationed with Jalapa, its soldiers choose it to reverse Vicente Guerrero, the second elected president. It is started and seizes Mexico City.
In 1830, he becomes president of the Mexico which he controls as a dictator, imprisoning, exiling or carrying out the liberal chiefs, removing their newspapers, getting rid of the resistance armed with Vicente Guerrero by a trick which enables him to make it put at dead in 1831.
It preserves the capacity until in 1833. Santa Anna, become president at that time, banishes it country, it remains three years with Paris where it studies.
In 1836, the Texas is declared independent, and Bustamante, tired of its exile, crosses the Atlantique to offer its military talents against this revolted province; it obtains more than it did not wish, the January 25th 1837, it is elected president of the Mexican Republic; he concludes soon a final treaty with the Spain which recognizes the independence of the colony.
Bustamante makes watch of a large cold blood when it treats with the admiral Baudin, at the time of the Guerre of pastry making in 1838, then at the time of the Siège of Mexico City by Santa-Anna.
The following year, a new revolution, still caused by Santa-Anna, forces it to give the capacity to the hands of the congress, and to return to France where it arrives in October 1842. The next month, it leaves for the Italy where it saw with Genoa until in 1844.
It is then named senator, but cannot exert its load because of the opposition to its opposition. One entrusts some military missions to him, like forwarding in California in 1847, at the time of the américano-Mexican Guerre, then the pacification of the states of Guanajuato and Aguascalientes in 1848.
At the end of its military career, it is withdrawn in San Miguel of Allende, where it dies in 1853.
Sources
- Bustamante, Anastasio on Historical Text Files
- Bustamente on Mexico City para niños
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