Episode 5 of Brandon Seale's podcast series on the Battle of Medina.In 7th grade Texas history textbooks, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara figures only peripherally in the events covered in this series. In reality, he may have been the great unifying figure for the Tejano, Native American, and Americans volunteers marching across Texas in the fall of 1812. Texas Governor Manuel Salcedo certainly took notice of his movements and rode out to ambush the revolutionary commander on the road to San Antonio in October 1812. It would be Gutiérrez de Lara, however, who had a surprise in store for Salcedo.The research team takes to the air to look for the “canyon” chosen by Republicans to later ambush the Royalist Army before the Battle of Medina.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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