Juan Sequin

            Juan Sequin was involved in a lot of fighting like in the Texas revolution and in the Mexican American war. He was a hero of Texas because of winning the battle of San Jacinto but he also knew what it was like to live among his former enemies.

            Juan Sequin was the mayor of San Antonio and the leader of a band of tejanos like himself. He fought Santa Anna’s army in 1835 with his band of tejanos. The next year in 1836 he went to the Alamo for the first part of the siege of the Alamo. He was sent to recruit reinforcements for the siege but he wasn’t allowed to go back and help the people in the Alamo. So the people in the Alamo were massacred by Santa Anna and his army.

            After that they were running from Santa Anna waiting for Santa Anna to make a mistake and he did. Santa Anna spilt his army into three and Juan Sequin and other reinforcements attacked Santa Anna. This battle was called the battle of San Jacinto. The battle only lasted 18 minutes but the Americans still slaughtered the Mexican army. They caught Santa Anna under a tree taking a nap. The battle was over and Texas was theirs.

            However Juan was rudely shocked to find out after the Texas Revolution that numerous towns in Texas moved to banned all of the tejano residents. Many people even thought of even banishing him from San Antonio even though he was the mayor. But when he helped defeat a Mexican expedition that was sent to San Antonio turn the Texans against him they kicked him out. The commander during the battle said that Juan Sequin was still loyal to the Mexican government. After that the former friends and town’s people turned against him and force him to flee to Mexico.

            The Mexican government hardly welcomed Sequin with open arms. Once he got to Nuevo Laredo a town in Mexico they arrested him and offered him a choice between jail time or serving the Mexican army. So Sequin chose to serve the army. After that he was sent to the United States to fight against his former country in the Mexican American War. After the War Sequin got permission to return to his home town in Texas. But the harassment he had left still continued in 1867. So he left Texas and returned to Mexico. He died in Nuevo Laredo, just across the Rio Grande from where he had once fought for independence for in 1890.

            Juan Sequin was born in 1806 and lived until 1890. His parents names where Don Erasmo and Dona Josefa. He also had many brothers and sisters. He lived in a small house two miles out of Floresville and about thirty miles from San Antonio. The house also had a name it was called Casa Blanca because it was made out of white adobe and casa blanca means white house.

            There were many things talked about in this paper like how Juan Sequin was involved in the siege of the Alamo, in the battle of San Jacinto, how the people of Texas abandoned him, and how he got involved in the Mexican-American War. This paper also talks about his life, where he died, who his parents were, and where he lived.