Biography

Antonio Valverde y Cosio was son of Antonio Velarde and Juana de Velarde y Cosio.
He was appointed acting governor of New Mexico

New Mexico

New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

 in 1716. After being replaced in the same year by Juan Paez Hurtado, he regained the interim government of the Spanish province in 1718, abandoning it in 1721 because this year the viceroy

Viceroy

A viceroy is a royal official who runs a country, colony, or province in the name of and as representative of the monarch. The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning "in the place of" and the French word roi, meaning king. A viceroy's province or larger territory is called a viceroyalty...

 of New Spain

New Spain

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 appointed the new governor of the province, Juan Estrada of Austria. During his rule in 1719, Spain and France joined forces to cope with the Comanches and Utes

Ute Tribe

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, as Valverde and Cosio led a column of Spanish troops and auxiliary Amerindian tribes to punish enemies of the crown. Upon reaching the Arkansas River

Arkansas River

The Arkansas River is a major tributary of the Mississippi River. The Arkansas generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The river's initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado, specifically the Arkansas...

, south the Colorado

Colorado

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, the Apaches of El Cuartelejo  told him of the French presence in palnicies. One of the Apaches also said him that the French build two villages among the Amerindians Pawnee, west of the Missouri River

Missouri River

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, as big as Taos

Taos

Taos can meanPlaces*Taos Pueblo, a Native American pueblo, Tua-tah*Taos dialect, a dialect of the Tiwa language*Taos County, New Mexico, United States*Taos, New Mexico, a city, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico...

 in New Mexico. He also said that the French were arming the Indians and they dedicated themselves to insult the Spanish.
On his return to Santa Fe

Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is the capital of the U.S. state of New Mexico. It is the fourth-largest city in the state and is the seat of . Santa Fe had a population of 67,947 in the 2010 census...

, the governor sent a report to the viceroy in concluding that the French were preparing to enter New Mexico gradually attracting the tribes with gifts and giveaways that included firearms. On January 10, 1720 the viceroy Valero ordered the governor Valverde to establish a Presidio

Presidio

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 in the settlement of El Cuartelejo apache, and he launched another expedition in search of the French settlements among the Pawnee.
The governor Valverde suggested the viceroy that he the placed among the Native American peoples, the Jicarilla, just 40 miles from Santa Fe, and the
cultivated fields, yet the Apaches of El Cuartelejo, allies of the Spanish, were at 130 miles and they dont supplies as they could not adequately defend themselves. The viceroy agreed to the suggestion. The Spanish troops fulfilled their orders and they into in unknown territory further north. He stepped down as governor of the province in 1721. Antonio Cosio died on December 15, 1728 in El Paso

El Paso

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