Cos, Martín Perfecto De (1800–1854)

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Cos, Martín Perfecto De (1800–1854)

Martín Perfecto De Cos (b. 1800; d. 1854), Mexican general. A native of Veracruz, Cos joined the Veracruz regiment in 1820. He became a lieutenant under Augustín de Iturbide during 1821, but supported the formation of a Mexican republic by 1823. After Cos became a general in 1833, President Antonio Lopéz de Santa Anna sent him to control unrest in the North. In December 1835 he lost San Antonio to the Texans. Cos fought at the Alamo (1836) before being captured at San Jacinto in early 1836. Federalists defeated him in battle at Tampico in 1838 and at Tuxpan in 1839. During 1847 he fought against the U.S. Army at Tuxpan. Cos acted as government leader for Tehuantepec before his death.

See alsoMexico: 1810–1910 .

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Walter Lord, A Time to Stand (1961).

Joseph Milton Nance, After San Jacinto: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836–1841 (1963); "Cos, Martín Perfecto de," in Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (1986).

Alwyn Barr, Texans in Revolt: The Battle for San Antonio, 1835 (1990).

Additional Bibliography

Vázquez, Josefina Zoraida. México al tiempo de su guerra con Estados Unidos, 1846–1848. México: Secretaría de Exteriores: El Colegio de México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1997.

                                            Alwyn Barr

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