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Line 1: {{short description\|Texian military operation}} {{Infobox military conflict \| conflict = Mier expedition \| partof = \| image = [[File:Frederic Remington - The Mier Expedition- The Drawing of the Black Bean - Google Art Project.jpg\|border\|300px]] \| caption = ''The Drawing of the Black Bean'', [[Frederic Remington]] \| date = November 1842 – February 1843 \| place = [[Ciudad Mier]], [[Tamaulipas]] \| coordinates = \| result = Mexican victory \| combatant2 = {{flagcountry\|Republic of Texas}} \| combatant1 = {{flagdeco\|Mexico\|1823}} [[Centralist Republic of Mexico\|Mexico]] \| commander2 = {{flagdeco\|Republic of Texas}} [[Alexander Somervell]] <br /> {{flagdeco\|Republic of Texas}} [[William S. Fisher (Texas)\|William S. Fisher]] <br /> {{flagdeco\|Republic of Texas}} [[Ewen Cameron (soldier)\|Ewen Cameron]] {{Executed}} \| commander1 = {{flagdeco\|Mexico\|1823}} [[Francisco Mejia (general)\|Francisco Mejía]] <br /> {{flagdeco\|Mexico\|1823}} [[Pedro de Ampudia]] \| strength2 = 750 \| strength1 = 836 \| casualties2 = 64 killed and wounded <br /> 242 captured (18 later executed) \| casualties1 = 40 killed <br /> 60 wounded \| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Mexican conflicts with Texas 1839–1843}} }} Line 32: ===Battle of Mier=== {{Infobox military conflict \| conflict = Battle of Mier \| partof = \| image = [[File:Battle of Mier.jpg\|border\|300px]] \| caption = A map of the Battle at Ciudad Mier \| date = December 25–26, 1842 \| place = [[Ciudad Mier]], [[Tamaulipas]] \| coordinates = \| result = Mexican victory \| combatant2 = {{flagcountry\|Republic of Texas}} \| combatant1 = {{flagdeco\|Mexico\|1823}} [[Centralist Republic of Mexico\|Mexico]] \| commander2 = {{flagdeco\|Republic of Texas}} [[William S. Fisher (Texas)\|William S. Fisher]] \| commander1 = {{flagdeco\|Mexico\|1823}} [[Pedro de Ampudia]] \| strength2 = 350 \| strength1 = 836 \| casualties2 = 64 killed and wounded <br /> 242 captured (18 later executed) \| casualties1 = 40 killed <br /> 60 wounded \| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Mexican conflicts with Texas 1839–1843}} }} Line 62: === Black Bean Episode === To help determine who would die, Huerta had 159 white beans and 17 black beans placed in a pot. In what came to be known as the Black Bean Episode or the Bean Lottery, the Texans were blindfolded and ordered to draw beans. Officers and enlisted men, in alphabetical order, were ordered to draw. The seventeen men who drew black beans were allowed to write letters home before being executed by firing squad. On the evening of March 25, 1843, the Texians were shot in two groups, one of nine men and one of eight. According to legend, Huerta placed the black beans in the jar last and had the officers pick first, so that they would make up the majority of those killed. [[File:Monument Hill execution painting.png\|thumb\|Painted tile mural at Monument Hill State Historic Site, commemorating the execution of Texans after drawing black beans.]] The first Texan to draw a black bean was [[Major]] [[James Decatur Cocke]]. A witness recalled that Cocke held up the bean between his forefinger and thumb, and with a smile of contempt, said, "Boys, I told you so; I never failed in my life to draw a prize."{{Citation needed\|date=May 2022}} He later told a fellow Texan, "They only rob me of forty years." Fearing that the Mexicans would strip his body after he was dead, he removed his pants and gave them to a companion whose clothing was in worse shape. He was shot with the sixteen others who drew black beans on March 25, 1843. His last words were reported to have been, "Tell my friends I die with grace." The other sixteen who drew black beans in the lottery were William Mosby Eastland, Patrick Mahan, James M. Ogden, James N. Torrey, Martin Carroll Wing, John L. Cash, Robert Holmes Dunham, Edward E. Este, Robert Harris, Thomas L. Jones, Christopher Roberts, William N. Rowan, James L. Shepherd, J. N. M. Thomson, James Turnbull, and Henry Walling. Shepherd survived the firing squad by pretending to be dead. The guards left him for dead in the courtyard, and he escaped in the night but was recaptured and shot. [[Eastland County, Texas]], is named after William Mosby Eastland.<ref>[http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qmb01 "Black bean episode"], ''Handbook of Texas Online'', published by the Texas State Historical Association; Retrieved May 02, 2011</ref>

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