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El Primer Batallon de Mexico - The First Battalion of Mexico |
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Bienvenidos Amigo to the official website of El Primer Batallon de Mexico - the 1st Battalion of Mexico, a unit of living historians dedicated to faithfully replicating and interpreting the Mexican Army of the 1800s. Membership is open to anyone over 16 years of age. Although we mainly interpret regular infantry, the unit is open to quality cavalry, artillery, and specialist interpretations. Our clothing & knowledge standards are high, but worry not as help is always available and events plentiful! |
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CONTACT OUR UNIT! |
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UNIT HISTORY |
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The unit was founded in 2005 by reenactors who replicated members of the 19th Century Mexican armed forces as either members of an existing group or as individuals. Althought groups replicating the opposing sides of the Texan Revolution existed over the years since the 1980s, there previously had not been a unit singularly dedicated to replicating just the Mexican soldier. Concerted effort is made by members to upgrade the clothing standards of the interpretation given on-going research's discovery of new information that repeatedly debunks long-held Texan traditions and images of the soldado. In addition to the soldado of the Texas Revolution of 1835-1836, the unit aspires to replicate the soldado of the Mexican War of 1846-1848 and beyond!! |
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Unit members are generally located in the South Central Texas region. In an effort to bring their interpretations of the Mexican soldado to as much of the public as possible, however, members have travelled far and wide to be present at reenactments and sites associated with the Texas Revolution (such as the Alamo, Presidio La Bahia / Fort Defiance in Goliad, and San Jacinto), and assorted sites associated with the Mexican War, from the battlefield of Palo Alto near present-day Brownsville, Texas, to even an exhibition on the Mexican War in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
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UNIFORMS |
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Although the unit covers multiple time periods of Mexican military history, our main interpretive period is the Texas Revolution of 1835 - 1836. Generally speaking, an infantry soldado of this particular period was issued 2 uniforms: a blue-wool combat uniform and a white-cotton fatigue / marching uniform. Either one of these is acceptable as the bare miminum for participating with our unit. Please contact our unit for specifications. The following illustrations serve mainly to show our participation at various events, but also as a general guide to our accepted uniform impressions. |
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Unit members "on the campaign!"
(l-r) Light infantryman, 2 Grenadiers, & an officer - San Jacinto 2006 |
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Above, assorted members & friends in camp on the
San Jacinto Battlefield, 2008
At left, member Martin Vasquez in his Dragoon Cavalry uniform of the Texas Revolution era. |
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THE MEXICAN WAR |
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Due to most of our members' proximity to the US-Mexican border, its not too surprising we also recreate Mexican soldados of the US-Mexican war of 1846-1848
This era, however, is still relatively new to the hobby of living history, so events are more scarce than Texas Revolution ones. Still, we turn out when we can for what events come our way. |
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(left) Recreated members of the 1st & 6th Line Infantry on the actual Mexican War battleline at Palo Alto.
The soldado in grey represents the Mexican 4th Light Infantry, which came within 1000 yards of capturing the US command during the battle. |
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