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Finding Aid to Archivo Histórico de la Defensa Nacional records,
1706-1857
Foreign Archives
Microfilm, Mexico
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Collection Title: Archivo Histórico de la Defensa Nacional records
Date (inclusive): 1706-1857
Collection Number: Foreign Archives
Microfilm, Mexico
Creator :
Archivo Histórico de la Defensa
Nacional (Mexico)
Extent:
Number of containers: 93 microfilm reels ; 16 mm.
Repository: The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: This collection contains microfilm of selected documents concerning
military reports, appointments of officers, trials, and descriptions of commerce and
government, collected under the direction of George P. Hammond. They refer to Mexico in
general but there is a strong emphasis on Northern Mexico and Mexican ports between the
1820s and the 1850s.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in Spanish
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite
and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Collection is open for research. Collection is stored in part offsite: advance notice is
required for use.
Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,
U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of
University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and
publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of
the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited
without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively
with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
[Identification of item], Archivo Histórico de la Defensa Nacional records, 1706-1857,
Foreign Archives Microfilm, Mexico, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley
The Bancroft Library also has selected transcriptions from this Archive: Prints and/or
transcripts of documents concerning California and Mexico, 1706-1857 (BANC MSS M-A 17 and
BANC FILM 2589). Finding aid available on the Online Archive of California:
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf367n99r9 .
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Archivo Histórico de la Defensa
Nacional (Mexico)--Archives
Archivo Histórico Militar de
México--Archives
Mexico--History,
Military--Sources
Mexico--History--Sources
California--History--Sources
New Mexico--History--Sources
Texas--History--Sources
Sonora (Mexico :
State)--History--Sources
Hammond, George P. (George
Peter), 1896-1993
Archivo Histórico Militar de México
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains microfilm of selected documents concerning military reports,
appointments of officers, trials, and descriptions of commerce and government, collected
under the direction of George P. Hammond. They refer to Mexico in general but there is a
strong emphasis on Northern Mexico and Mexican ports between the 1820s and the 1850s. The
main topics are Texan independence, Micheltorena's government in California, the Mexican
American War, the occupation of Mexico City by U.S. forces, the defense of Mexican ports,
the Mexican War of Reform, and Indian rebellions in Sonora and Northern Mexico. These
documents are also listed in the
Guía del Archivo Histórico Militar de
México,
published by the Mexican Dirección de Archivo Militar (call no.:
xCD3660.M35 Reference).
For more information on this archive see Hector Cuauhtémoc Hernandez, "El Archivo
Histórico Militar de México," in
Historia
Mexicana
XXXVIII: 1 (1998): 127-141 (call no.: F1201 .H5).