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Order of the day given by the Commander of the Havana Naval Station
to the Spanish soldiers and sailors for recovering Mexico

LABORDE Y NAVARRO, Ángel.
Orden del dia dada por el Señor Comandante general del Apostadero de Marina de la Habana.
[Havana], Imprenta de Boloña, [1829]. Folio (ca. 30.5 x 21 cm). Broadside with 16 lines of Spanish text set in a decorative woodcut border with a large woodcut at top depicting an anchor and the flag of Spain (ca. 6.5 x 6.5 cm). [1] l.
€ 2,500
Very rare broadside published in Havana by José Severino Boloña, the official printer of the Spanish Royal Navy, presenting an order by the Spanish naval commander Ángel Laborde y Navarro (1772-1834) to his men on 2 July 1829. That year, Spain made a final attempt to reconquer Mexico. To do so, Spain sent a fleet, under the command of Admiral Ángel Laborde, to land troops at the port of Tampico on the north bank of the Pánuco River. But Mexicos army defeated Spains army under General Isidro Plácido Del Rosario Barrada y Valdés (1782-1835) in the Battle of Pueblo Viejo on 11 September 1829. The battle was a major victory for Mexico and marked the final major battle between Spain and its former colony.
One vertical and three horizontal folds, two tiny wormholes in lower blank corner. Otherwise in good condition.
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