Republic of the Rio Grande

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The Republic of the Rio Grande (Spanish: República del Río Grande) is the name given by the Anglo-American press, and later by much of the historiography that followed it, to a federalist revolt and provisional government in northeastern Mexico between 1838 and 1840. On 23 January 1840 a junta meeting at Casa Blanca, on the Nueces River, headed by Antonio Canales Rosillo, Jesús de Cárdenas and others, withdrew recognition from the centralist government in Mexico City, installed the Provisional Government of the Northern Frontier of the Mexican Republic, and summoned a convention of the states to restore the federal system. It is commonly compared to the Republic of Texas as a separatist project, yet the leaders’ own documents use the terms frontera del norte, villas del norte and gobierno provisional: they neither employ the name of a republic nor speak of independence. The revolt ended with the agreement signed at Camargo on 6 November 1840, ratified by Canales and approved by General...

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