Post by Don Guillermo on May 8, 2008 6:23:21 GMT -5
Was Mexican revolutionary hero Pedro Elías Beán a traitor to the Anglo-Texian cause or a loyal Anglo-Mexican Texian?
This month Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas in memory of the first underground comix artist and Texas historian, the Eclectic Jack Jackson features
The Incredible Life of Colonel Pedro Elías Beán
Captured with the Nolan Expedition
10 Years in Spanish Prisons
Explosives Expert, Confidant & US Emissary of José Morelos
Veteran Battle of New Orleans
Colonel Republic of Mexico
Texian
Adventurer, designer, writer, promoter, entrepreneur, drinker, lover, creator, peace maker, business man---dedicated Anglo-Mexican Texian composite of first half 19th century South US, Spanish, Mexican and Republic of Texas America, elegant communicator in Spanish and English
"....I feel it my Duty as a Cityson of this Goverment to let you now as you are the nearest ofiser to this Plase the Prosedings of a band of men that has Past this Plase a few Days agow they call them selves advans guard of a large army of Republicans, But if I should name them I should call them a Band of Robers..."---Letter to Austin 1828.
....Finally, just beyond Jalapa, Bean reached the hacienda La Banderilla and the arms of the one person who had given all and asked nothing. He had come home [to] the Doña Magdalena Falfan de los Godos...with Philip Nolan he had fired the first shots.....the start of the inexorable conflict that caught him up and so strangely cleft his life. But Bean was not to see the finish. Six months after war [US with Mexico] broke out, the iron constitution that had endured the long horror of the Acapulco prison cell gave way....his turbulent life came quietly to an end--Bennett Lay in The Lives of Ellis P. Bean.
Take a modern day site visit to current Banderilla, Veracruz, follow links on John Todd Jr. com, The Search for Colonel Bean's Final Resting Place and The Miracle of Doña Magdalena: A Love Story for Those who Wait and Hope .
Also see: Jackson, Jack. Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean In Mexican Texas (Canseco-Keck History Series). Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2005.
This month Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas in memory of the first underground comix artist and Texas historian, the Eclectic Jack Jackson features
The Incredible Life of Colonel Pedro Elías Beán
Captured with the Nolan Expedition
10 Years in Spanish Prisons
Explosives Expert, Confidant & US Emissary of José Morelos
Veteran Battle of New Orleans
Colonel Republic of Mexico
Texian
Adventurer, designer, writer, promoter, entrepreneur, drinker, lover, creator, peace maker, business man---dedicated Anglo-Mexican Texian composite of first half 19th century South US, Spanish, Mexican and Republic of Texas America, elegant communicator in Spanish and English
"....I feel it my Duty as a Cityson of this Goverment to let you now as you are the nearest ofiser to this Plase the Prosedings of a band of men that has Past this Plase a few Days agow they call them selves advans guard of a large army of Republicans, But if I should name them I should call them a Band of Robers..."---Letter to Austin 1828.
....Finally, just beyond Jalapa, Bean reached the hacienda La Banderilla and the arms of the one person who had given all and asked nothing. He had come home [to] the Doña Magdalena Falfan de los Godos...with Philip Nolan he had fired the first shots.....the start of the inexorable conflict that caught him up and so strangely cleft his life. But Bean was not to see the finish. Six months after war [US with Mexico] broke out, the iron constitution that had endured the long horror of the Acapulco prison cell gave way....his turbulent life came quietly to an end--Bennett Lay in The Lives of Ellis P. Bean.
Take a modern day site visit to current Banderilla, Veracruz, follow links on John Todd Jr. com, The Search for Colonel Bean's Final Resting Place and The Miracle of Doña Magdalena: A Love Story for Those who Wait and Hope .
Also see: Jackson, Jack. Indian Agent: Peter Ellis Bean In Mexican Texas (Canseco-Keck History Series). Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, 2005.