The Battle of Medina Revisited

Episode 10 of Brandon Seale's podcast series on the Battle of Medina.After a year of research and interviews, we sum up everything we’ve learned over the last year to recreate what happened on August 18, 1813, when 1,830 Spanish Royalists under the command of General Joaquín de Arredondo finally met up with the unbeaten 1,400 man Republican Army of the North twenty miles or so south of San Antonio.Additionally, the battlefield search team attempts to validate the artifacts they have uncovered. The results are simultaneously disconcerting, exhilarating…and confusing.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