Pedro Nolasco Martín José María de la Candelaria Francisco Javier Ampudia y Grimarest was born in Havana, Cuba, and served Mexico as a Northern army officer for most of his life. At various points he was the governor of Tabasco, Yucatán, and Nuevo León. He also served a short term as Secretary of National Defense under President Benito Juárez.
Pedro de Ampudia
Nuevo León is a state in northeast Mexico. The state borders the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, Zacatecas, and San Luis Potosi, and has an extremely narrow international border with the U.S. state of Texas. With a population of 5.78 million people, it is the seventh-most populous federal entity in Mexico and the fourteenth most densely populated as of 2020. Nuevo León is the 13th-largest federal entity in Mexico by area, with a total land area of 64,156 square kilometers.
The Provincias Internas in 1815, showing the territory of Coahuila, the New Kingdom of León, Nuevo Santander, and Texas.
Portrait of Servando Teresa de Mier
Monterrey from Independence Hill, in the rear of the Bishop´s Palace. On stone by F. Swington, colored by G. & W. Edicott, New York, 1847. Depiction of Monterrey under U.S. occupation.
Santiago Vidaurri, governor of Nuevo León and Coahuila (1855–1864)
