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Tomas

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Location: Wallace Smith - Tomas 'Who Stole the war-chest; & who died for it'
Title: Tomas*
Artist:  Wallace  Smith (All)
Media Type: Paint - Watercolor
Art Type: Illustration
For Sale Status: NFS
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Added to Site: 2/20/2017

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Tomas - 'Who Stole the War-Chest; & Who Died For It'

(from wikipedia)
Tomás Urbina (c. 1877–1915) was a general during the Mexican Revolution who allied with Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.

Lieutenant Tomas Urbina and his counterpart and fellow General Rodolfo Fierro, have been cited as the two halves of Pancho Villa, Fierro representing his more violent side.[2]
Urbina was executed by General Fierro under the accusation that he betrayed Pancho Villa during the Battle of El Ébano (Spanish: Batalla de El Ébano), a 72-day siege of the town of El Ébano in the state of San Luis Potosí, where Urbina finally surrendered his forces to the Constitutionalist faction, and allegedly received a sum of money for his surrender.

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George Hagenauer Member Since 2005
Posted On 12/20/2020

Areally niceexample related to the period when Smith was embedded with Pancho Villa

George Hagenauer Member Since 2005
Posted On 12/21/2020

This is actually a chapter in Smith's Little Tigress collection- interestingly though it may ahve occurred before Smith was in Mexico given his birth date is 1888 and it is beleived he started reporting at age 20 (still researching this - his name at that point was Schmidt) whcih would have palced him in Mexico around 1918.