Antonio Canales Rosillo [SEP] place of birth
Antonio Canales Rosillo
Antonio Canales Rosillo (Monterrey, Nuevo León, 1802 – Camargo, Tamaulipas, 1852) was a 19th-century Mexican politician, surveyor, and military officer.
Military career.
Canales fought in the Apache wars in Mexico and fought under the many conservative attempts to control the Mexican national government of the 19th century. Canales was in discord with President Antonio López de Santa Anna's Centralist move against the Mexican Constitution of 1824.
He served as commander-in-chief of the army of
by Antonio Canales Rosillo invades south Texas and is repulsed near Fort Lipantitlán.
- Sep 11 - A division of the Mexican Army led by Gen. Adrián Woll invades Texas and captures San Antonio.
- Sep 18 - Col. Mathew Caldwell's and Capt. Jack Hays' companies attack General Woll's army at the Battle of Salado Creek.
- Sep 18 - 36 Texans are surrounded and killed by the Mexican Army in the Dawson Massacre.
- Dec 26 - 261 Texans are taken prisoner in the ill-