Santos Benavides
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Santos Benavides was a Mexican-American Confederate colonel during the American Civil War. Benavides was the highest-ranking Tejano soldier in the Confederate military.
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Copy of Santos Benavides photograph in the Republic of the Rio Grande Capitol Building Museum in Laredo
Entrance to Colonel Santos Benavides Elementary School in the Winfield subdivision of Laredo, Texas
Cortina Troubles
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The Cortina Troubles is the generic name for the First Cortina War, from 1859 to 1860, and the Second Cortina War, in 1861, in which paramilitary forces led by the Mexican rancher and local leader Jua
Santos Benavides
…also called Battle of Zapata), Benavides engaged the local Tejano leader Juan Cortina (who had invaded Zapata County, an event usually referred as the Second Cortina War), and drove him back into Mexico. Probably his greatest contribution to the Confederacy was securing passage of Confederate cotton to Matamoros…
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Texas Historical Marker in Rio Grande City
Texas historical marker on Highway 281 along the Rio Grande at the Hidalgo-Cameron county line.