Episode 4 of Brandon Seale's podcast series on the Battle of Medina.Before Father Miguel Hidalgo was captured by Royalist forces in March of 1811, he commissioned a modest but vocal supporter from the Rio Grande Valley as his emissary to the United States. With a dozen or so loyal followers, that emissary - José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara - escaped Royalist capture and crossed over the Sabine, where he would spend the next two years rallying recruits and resources to the cause of Mexican independence.Multiple contemporary accounts of the Battle of Medina relate the Republican army's route to the battlefield. Unfortunately, they almost all relate it differently or contradict each other in some material point. Despite their contradictions and ambiguities, what details might they have in common?Selected Bibliography1813 Texas Declaration of Independence.Anonymous. “Memoria de las cosas más notables…”Bernsen, James A. The Lost War for Texas: Mexican Rebels, American Burrites, and the Texas Revolution of 1811 (2024).De la Teja, Jesús F. San Antonio de Béxar: A Community on New Spain's Northern Frontier (1996).Folsom, Bradley. Arredondo: Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain (2017).Martínez De Vara, Art. Tejano Patriot (2020).Menchaca, Antonio. Memoirs (1937).Navarro, José Antonio. “The Memoirs of José Antonio Navarro, Originally Appearing in the San Antonio Ledger in 1853.”Schwarz, Ted, and Robert H. Thonhoff. Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The Battle of Medina, August 18, 1813. (1985).Texas State Historical Association. The Handbook of Texas Online.Tijerina, Andrés. Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836 (1994).www.BrandonSeale.com

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