824:, a few policemen and a few ranchers. During the two-hour battle that followed, at least a dozen people were killed or wounded and possibly many more before the rebels retreated back towards Mexico. Another battle was fought on the next morning, when the Mexican raiders encountered a force of Texas Rangers and soldiers as they attempted to cross the Rio Grande. The Americans reported that as many as twelve more rebels were killed and that very few made it across the river. For the next few weeks, West Texas was plagued by "almost daily killings," the most notable of which occurred on October 19. That day, a band of raiders derailed a train six miles north of Brownsville and killed several white people on board but left the Mexican passengers unhurt. When Captain Ransom arrived at the scene he found four Mexicans in the vicinity and executed them all. On October 21, Rosca and Pizana led 25 to 100 rebels in the last important raid of the Seditionista campaign. Like most of the raids, it was a failure for the rebels. This time, a squad of eight army
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739:, both died. American authorities said that "the Mexican officers knew of the plans of their fellows before the real beginning of the operations and that this was the cause of the several efforts to assassinate them." Over the next two weeks, there were various reports of raids, attacks on police officers, and assassination attempts on local landowners. By the end of July, the raiders were trying to cut off communications to the people in the
851:, but a baker in Kingsville, known as Victoriano Ponce, informed the Texas Rangers, who arrested both men in May. The two were apparently murdered by the Rangers since they were never seen again after their arrest. According to US Army investigators, over 300 Mexicans had been killed during the Seditionistas' campaign.
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William Weber considers that "personal conflict" was the cause of some of the violence and that the "most important example" was that of Aniceto Pizana, the owner of Los Tulitos Ranch. Pizana's neighbor, Jeff Scrivener, was known for wanting Pizana's land and so in early August, he told American
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Frank Carr and the Texas Ranger Daniel
Hinojosa arrested Munoz but according to the officers, when they were leaving San Benito, a party of eight armed men wearing masks forced them to give up Munoz. The next day, Munoz's body was found about two miles from town and had been "riddled with bullets"
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said that "every person who was charged with a crime refused to be arrested, because they did not believe that the officers of the law would give them the protection guaranteed them by the
Constitution and the laws of this State." A lawyer in San Benito, William G. B. Morrison, said that Munoz's
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authorities that Pizana was in league with the rebels and had harbored some of them during one of their raids. Despite that accusation, no evidence suggests that Pizana ever had any significant ties with the rebels though he was a friend of Luis de la Rosca, a known raider who owned a store in
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border states of their Anglo-American population and for the annexation of the border states to Mexico. However, the
Seditionistas could never launch a full-scale invasion of the United States and so the faction resorted to conducting small raids into Texas. Much of the fighting involved the
805:, killing A. L. Austin and his son Charles. Austin formerly served as the president of the Law and Order League which, according to federal investigators, "had driven several bad men out of that section " and so was an ideal target for the raiders, who thought of him as a
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events, and always have felt that there was something yet due the
Mexicans from us, and if there is a second call and for a war, the Mexicans will certainly get what is due them from the Texans." On July 29, a Mexican, Adolfo Munoz, was killed near
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lynching had been "the spark that fired the flame among the white people." However, a federal investigator said that the lynching had been "an expression of the indignation of the people against the repeated failure to enforce the laws."
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and hanging from a tree. The lynching, whether perpetrated by the rebels or by the Texans, created an atmosphere of distrust among the local
Mexican population for the Texas Rangers and other American police forces.
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Harry Ransom into the Lower Rio Grande Valley to lead a "pacification campaign." According to author John
William Weber, Ransom was in charge of an "assassination squad" that conducted a "
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