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"Finding Medina" weaves together the events surrounding the Battle of Medina with the modern-day search for the battlefield itself. Despite being the largest, bloodiest battle in Texas history, the Medina battlefield has eluded archaeologists for more than a century. By the end of this podcast series, we hope to change that.
Brandon Seale's heat map has no victory pin; your inner detective may prefer it that way.
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A battlefield mystery unfolds through skeletons, maps, family memory, and evidence that will not settle.
A summer 1822 procession down the Laredo Road opens onto a harder mystery: where did the Battle of Medina actually happen? As San Antonians cross the Medina River, partial skeletons rise from sandy soil, linking a new Mexican governor's arrival to the unburied dead left after…
A Tejano Republican primary account gives the Battle of Medina's civilian aftermath most of the historical weight.
Finding Medina's second bonus episode turns on a Tejano Republican primary account of the Battle of Medina, but its real weight falls after the fighting.
A grim, focused look at how the Battle of Medina's aftermath shaped Texas memory.
Finding Medina frames the Battle of Medina less as a single defeat than as the opening shock of a wider Texas disaster. It moves from a Spanish-language contemporary account into the ruined world around San Antonio, where scarcity, disarmament, attacks, abandoned ranches, and…
A divided Republican command meets Royalist fire in a battle rebuilt through cavalry, cannon smoke, and material traces.
The Battle of Medina Revisited frames the fight as a collision between a Republican army strained by command politics and two converging Royalist forces.
A sudden political ouster leads to a family farm, where small artifacts keep an old road within reach.
Finding Medina starts with a sharp political break and follows it toward the older, quieter evidence left along a road. On July 27, 1813, the Junta appointed by President Governor Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara removed him unanimously and put 35-year-old Jose Alvarez de Toledo in…
Outnumbered units, remembered under fire.
Battle maps, war films, and patient context.
War news, tested against military reality.
Antique European history, read aloud.
Brandon Seale's Finding Medina episode asks whether the Battle of Medina battlefield can be located, and he ties the search to El Carmen Church, the Medina River, and the Rivard Report heat map.
Brandon Seal opens Finding Medina bonus episode two by calling this the only known Republican primary account of the Battle of Medina written by a Tejano.
["Finding Medina episode 11, 'Terror in Texas,' opens with Brandon Seale arguing that the aftermath of the Battle of Medina mattered more than the battle itself.", "Seale anchors the episode in a Spanish-language contemporary account and describes Arredondo's reprisals in San Antonio, including the killing of Antonio Delgado and the imprisonment of women and children at La Quinta.", "He uses Stephen F.
Finding Medina episode 10 follows Brandon Seal through the August 1813 Battle of Medina and the later search for its battlefield.
Two iron balls from Kathy Rodriguez Brown's property on Old Pleasanton Road become the episode's central clue, because Brandon Seale measures them at 7.9 ounces and 9.6 ounces and compares them to canister shot from the Battle of Medina.
This episode details the Republican Army's capture of Goliad during the Texas Revolution, outmaneuvering Spanish Governor Salcedo.
The episode explores the march on Goliad and the role of Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara in the Texas Revolution, intertwined with modern efforts to locate the lost battlefield.
This episode recounts the Casas Revolt in San Antonio during the Mexican War of Independence, setting the stage for the Battle of Medina.
This episode introduces the Battle of Medina, the largest battle in Texas history, and the ongoing search for its lost battlefield.