1. Antonio Pascual Narbona was a Spanish soldier from Mobile now in Alabama, who fought native American people in the northern part of Mexico around the turn of the nineteenth century.
14 Facts About Antonio Narbona
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Antonio Narbona supported the independence of Mexico from Spain in 1821.
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Antonio Narbona was Governor of the territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico from September 1825 until 1827.
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Antonio Narbona was a Criollo, or locally born person of pure Spanish ancestry, born at Mobile in Spanish Louisiana, now Alabama.
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Antonio Narbona arrived in Sonora in 1789 as a cadet in the Santa Cruz Company, sponsored by the commandant Brigadier Enrique Grimarest, who was his brother in law.
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Lieutenant Antonio Narbona came to New Mexico from Chihuahua province in January 1805 at the head of a troop of soldiers sent to respond to a Navajo raid.
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Narbona's force travelled north from Zuni Pueblo, passing through the Narbona Pass to attack the Canyon de Chelly.
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The Antonio Narbona expedition killed over 115 Navajo and took 33 women and children as slaves.
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Antonio Narbona was given command of the troops at Arizpe, leading them in support of the Plan of Iguala and Mexican independence from Spain.
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Antonio Narbona was elected second member of the Provincial Government of Sonora and Sinaloa, and on 23 July 1822 was appointed political leader of the provinces of Sonora and Sinaloa.
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Antonio Narbona then handed over the force to the command of General Figueroa.
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Colonel Antonio Narbona was appointed gefe politico of New Mexico from September 1825 to May 1827.
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George Champlin Sibley met with Governor Antonio Narbona and established cordial relations.
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Antonio Narbona died in Arizpe on March 20,1830, and his namesake son, who was military and attained the rank of colonel, was killed by Apaches in Cuquiarachi on the threshold of his house on December 23,1848.