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The Center of Camp => People of the Times => Topic started by: Craig Tx on March 25, 2009, 08:36:25 AM

Title: Black Bean Lottery
Post by: Craig Tx on March 25, 2009, 08:36:25 AM

From the Texas State Historical Association

Texas force decimated after black bean lottery

On this day in 1843, seventeen Texans were executed at Salado, Tamaulipas, Mexico. As the members of the defeated Mier expedition were being marched from Mier to Mexico City, they attempted a mass escape on February 11.

Some 176 were recaptured, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna ordered that one in ten of the prisoners be shot. The victims were chosen by a lottery in which each man drew a bean from an earthen jar containing 176 beans, seventeen of which were black.

This event has come to be known as the Black Bean Episode. The bodies were returned to Texas and are buried on Monument Hill at La Grange, Fayette County.

Craig

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Post by: Two Steps on March 25, 2009, 09:48:50 AM

Good reason that I don't buy black beans... ;)
Al

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Post by: Craig Tx on March 25, 2009, 09:08:50 PM

Actually, the 21 April payback was for the Alamo, and La Bahia (Goliad) in 1836.

The Meir expedition, and the Black Bean lottery was 7 years later...

Craig