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Notes Vol. 38: No.3 2013 The Lottery of Death: The Story of the Mier Expedition The Mier Expedition: The Drawing of the Black Bean, by Frederic Rc mington. c. 1896, Museun of Fine Arts, Houston While it appeared Texas' troubles with Mexico ended with the battle at San Jacinto, Mexican forces continued to invade the Republic of Texas hoping to regain control. The Mexican invasions in Texas resulted in retaliations from the Texians. Sam Houston, president of the Republic of Texas, ordered Alexander Somervell to organize a militia in San Antonio and invade Mexico. Some of these invasions turned into plundering. Feeling his army ill equipped and undisciplined, Somervell ordered the troops to return home to be disbanded. About 300 of these disappointed men refused to return without a fight. Instead they elected William S. Fisher to command their army as they continued the plans to invade Mexico. By tie time the militia reached the Rio Grande, they had run short on supplies. Crossing the Rio Grande, the Texiars entered the town of Mier on December 23, 1842, demanding supplies: clothing, cattle, horses, firearms and rations, taking the Alcalde as a guarantee. The Texians, while waiting for the promised supplies at their campsite on the Texas side of the river, learned that approximately 700 Mexican soldiers led by General Pedro de Ampudia had gathered at Mier. The Texians unanimously voted to cross the river to engage the enemy. After 18 hours of fighting, both armies were running low on supplies and near defeat. The Texians surrendered and were forced to march towards W'exico City for imprisonment. However, almost 200 prisoners escaped near Matamoros. Once they had gone over 100 miles, the escapees decided to leave the road to flee through the mountains towards Texas. This was a grave error as there was very little water. Travel ing on foot, they killed the fattest of horses and mules, jerking the meat for subsistence. Saddles were cut up to make sandals to protect feet from rock and thorns. Lack of water forced the men to obtain water from plants. continued on page 2- continued from page 1 Survival methods also included drinking their own urine, chewing prickly pear for moisture and rubbing cold dirt and gravel on chests and stomachs to cool their fevers. Many of the men died from starvation, thirst, and exposure in the mountains. Those who survived were eventually discovered by the enemy. Tied up with rawhide strings and later by handcuffs of iron, the men were marched to Salado by order of Santa Anna. Every 10th Texian would be doomed in a lottery of death. A Mexican decree stated that of the total 176 that were recaptured, 17 must die. On March 25, seventeen black beans along with 159 white beans were placed in a pot. White beans meant survival. Those drawing black beans were shot brutally in the heads and faces. Some of the Mexican officers witnessing the massacre shed tears. Survivors of the lottery were imprisoned in Mexico City and later in Perote Prison near Mexico City, where many escaped or suffered starvation, disease, and death. Some prisoners however, remained and were released in September 1844. In 1848 the bodies of the dead were returned from Mexico to be buried at Monument Hill, near La Grange. The Mier Expedition was not a mis sion planned by the Texian militia. It was the last and most disastrous of the raiding expeditions from Texas south of the Nueces River during the days of the Republic of Texas. "It is true the men went without orders," President Sam Houston wrote, "and so far as that was con cerned, the Government of Texas Plan of Mier: The Texian Camp and Attack on the City," showing the encampments of the was not responsible; and the men Texians on the east side of the Rio Grande and the Mexican cavalry, infantry, and artillery thereby placed themselves out of on December 25 and 26, 1842. 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