Chronicle of an Annexation Foretold?
Luis de Onis… of the Adams-Onis treaty that set the boundries between the new United States and New Spain, during the early deliberations that would lead to the 1819 treaty setting the boundaries of the United States and New Spain, wrote to Viceroy Vengas in April 1812:
“Every day the ambitious ideas of this republic are developing more and more, and its hostile views against Spain are confirmed… this government It has been proposed nothing less than to set its limits at the mouth of the Río Norte or Bravo, following its course up to the 31st degree and from there drawing a straight line to the Pacific Sea, consequently taking the provinces of Texas, Nuevo Santander, Coahuila, New Mexico and part of the province of Nueva Vizcaya, and Sonora. This project may seem like a delirium… but a plan exists and has been expressly drawn up for these provinces by order of the government, also including the island of Cuba in said limits…
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