Talk:History of Nuevo León

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I've translated this from the Spanish. I have no particular expertise on the subject (although I'm not totally ignorant on it either), so I have no ability to evaluate the scholarship of this. In other words, I'm responsible for the accuracy (or otherwise) of my translation, but not of the information in the original Spanish-language article.

It would be nice if someone would bring over the images used with this article in the Spanish-language Wikipedia. I figure that doesn't take any translating skill, so I leave it to someone else. -- Jmabel 06:54, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Nuevo León Border with U.S.

While looking at a map, I was curious as to why Nuevo León has such a tiny border with the U.S. I'm not sure this is an authoritative source, but this page mentions a land trade with the state of Coahuila in 1882 to obtain the access to the U.S. border. --Boone 19:32, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] why so tiny border

Boone, I think it goes as follows: the long arm on the state of Tamaulipas used to belong to Nuevo Leon. Benito Juarez transferred most of it to Tamaulipas in punishment after the governor of Nuevo Leon, Santiago Vidaurri, didn't support him against the invading French and Maximilian. This move effectively removed a large income from trade with the USA. Only tiny Colombia was left as border for NL. Sergio sanchez (24 Feb 2006)

You have to remember that Nuevo Leon dates back to long, long before the existence of the U.S. It was originally a "kingdom" of the Spanish Empire as far back as the 1580s, before any English settlements had even been founded in North America. Even after it became a Mexican state in 1824-1825, it did not have a border with the U.S. or Texas, because the U.S. had not yet confiscated the northern territories of Mexico (that happened in 1846-1848). The original boundaries of Tamaulipas (or Nuevo Santander, as it used to be called) included what only later became South Texas, up to the Nueces River. If you look at the map with that in mind, it makes more sense. What now looks like a "long arm" of Tamaulipas was just part of the state, flowing naturally up to what is now South Texas. --Potosino 03:00, 25 March 2007 (UTC)