Lookin’ back: Mexican military hero Urrea actually a ‘local boy’

“How does that old saw go - “You’re never a hero in your hometown”?

Not many people in Tucson are familiar with the name José Cosme de Urrea. But he was a “local boy” who became a Mexican Army general, high-profile participant in the Texas war for independence and the United States-Mexican War, governor of Sonora and Sinaloa, chief political officer of Durango and a personal favorite of Antonio López de Santa Anna, the dictator of Mexico.”

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