urn:taro:utexas.blac.00098 Reminiscencias históricas of General Mariano Ruiz, 1926 Benson Latin American Collection University of Texas Libraries, 2006 Finding aid encoded by Christian Kelleher, 2006Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Ruiz, Mariano, 1843- Reminiscencias históricas escritas por el general Mariano Ruiz 1926 Spanish 2000-03 70704514 3 inches Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Mexican General Mariano Ruiz's memoir of the French Intervention, the capture and execution of Maximilian, the American Princess Salm-Salm, and events that led to the Mexican Revolution. Biographical Sketch

Mariano Ruiz was born 26 January 1843 in Texcoco, México. A career army officer, Ruiz rose to the rank of division general and commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, West Division. He served as a federal deputy from 1886 to 1912, and appointed governor of Nayarit from 1904-1911. Mariano Ruiz died on 1 December 1932.

 Scope and Contents Note

The Reminiscencias contains 133 folios of text and 74 plates that include photographs, portraits, and illustrations of Maximilian, republican and imperial generals, political dignitaries, battle scenes, and Princess Salm-Salm (née Agnes Le Clerq Joy). In his memoir Ruiz recounts the military maneuvers throughout Mexico that led to the arrest and tragic end to Emperor Maximilian and to the events that led to the twentieth-century revolution. The collection also includes newspaper clippings of Princess Salm-Salm's American visit in 1899 that corroborate Ruiz's account.

 Provenance Note

One of two extant copies of the memoirs, this was inscribed in 1928 to Ruiz's "honorable friend" Edmund Steele Joy. The manuscript was discovered in a Philadelphia attic by Joy's great-nieces Elizabeth Joy Oberdorf and Edith Joy King.

 Related Material

Materials related to the French Intervention can also be found in the Benson's Genaro García Collection.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted.

 Use Restrictions

Standard copyright restrictions apply. Copying is limited due to preservation concerns.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: Memoirs of General Mariano Ruiz, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms

The Memoirs of General Mariano Ruiz classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries catalog:

Ruiz, Mariano, 1843- --Archives Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, 1832-1867 Salm-Salm, Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclerq Joy, Prinzessin zu, 1840-1912 Mexico--History--European intervention, 1861-1867--Sources Box and Folder Inventory Reminiscencias históricas escritas por el general Mariano Ruiz, veterano de 1862, el día 15 de septiembre de 1926 1Reminiscencias históricas

The text contains, among other information, the following:

Dedicatory of the manuscript to Don Plutarco Elías Calles, Presidente de la República, 15 September 1926.

Dedicatory of the manuscript to Señor General Alvaro Obregón.

Essay about Napolion Bonaparte addressed to Señor Presidente.

Report of political and military facts that vocer the period of the French Intervention, 1862-1867. Special coverage of military campaigns of the Ejército del Norte and Ejército de Oriente as well as the Sitio de Querétaro, and the court-martial and execution of Maximilian. General Escobedo and Benito Juarez are mentioned as sources. A military document reported by General Antonio Badarrama to General Mariano Escobero is fully transcribed on leaves 32 and 33 bis. 154 leaves.

Historical anecdote involving Manuel Lozada, aka the "Tiger of Alica," and the Conde of Athum. 11 leaves.

Historical anecdote involving an honorable old lady from Monterrey (name not provided) during the American Navy landing and seizure of Veracruz, 1913-1914. 4 leaves.

Historical reminiscences of the honorable lady Mrs. Carmen Romero Rubio viuda de Díaz (wife of Porfirio Díaz).

Transcription of letter by Victor Hugo to Porfirio Díaz, 20 June 1867. 3 leaves.

 1Photographs and Prints

A number of photographs or printed copies of portraits and paintings are included in the memoirs. These include the following:

 11. Plutarco Elias Calles 12. Alvaro Obregón 13. Napoleon Bonaparte 14. Napoleon III, Emperor of France 15. President Benito Juárez 16. Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, Minister of Foreign Relations 17. General Ignacio Mejía, Minister of War and Marine 18. Authors of the Constitution of 1857 19. Battle of Calpulalpam, 1860 110. General Manuel Doblado, representative of the Mexican government in the conference with England, France, and Spain, 1862 111. General Juan Prim, representative of Spain and Commander-in-Chief of tripartite forces, 1862 112. Vice-Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, French representative, 1862 113. Conde Lorencez, Division General of French forces defeated at Pueble, 5 May 1862 114. Brigadier General Félix Díaz 115. Monument to the memory of Mexican patriots who died, El Fortín, Veracruz, 19 April 1862 116. Division General Ignacio Zaragoza 117. Battle of Puebla, 5 May 1862 118. Division General Porfirio Díaz 119. Porfirio Díaz routing French invaders at the Cerro de Amalucán 120. Division General Miguel Negrete, 1862 121. Division General Felipe Berriozabal 122. Division General Florencio Antillon 123. Division General Jesús González Ortega 124. Division General U. Forey (Lorencez's successor) 125. Bazaine, Marshal of the French forces, responsible for the decree of 3 October 1865, issued by Maximilian in 1867 126. Brigadier General Pedro J. Méndez, Tamaulipas, d. 13 February 1866 127. Mexican commissioners who offered Archduke Maximilian of Austria the Mexican throne, 3 October 1863 128. General José López Uraga of the Central Army, defected to the French in 1863 129. Pope Pius IX's meeting with Maximilian and Carlotta Amalia of Belgium to receive his blessing before assuming the Mexican crown, 1864 130. Maximilian, killed at Querétaro, 19 June 1867 131. Carlotta 132. Maximilian meeting Srta. Guadalupe Martínez when his disguise was uncovered 133. Assault on the plaza of Puebla, 2 April 1867 134. Division General Mariano Escobedo 135. Division General Ramón Corona 136. Brigadier General Vicente Riva Palacio 137. Brigadier General Sóstenes Rocha 138. Brigadier General Nicolas Regules 139. Brigadier General Mariano Escobedo 140. Historic map of Querétaro 141. Division General Francisco A. Velez 142. Imperial General Leonardo Márquez, who escaped to Cuba 143. Maximilian's surrender to General Mariano Escobedo, Cerro de las Campana, 15 May 1867 144. Coronel Carlos Fuero 145. Imperial General Severo del Castillo 146. Imperial General Miguel Miramón 147. Imperial General Tomás Mejía 148. Imperial General Ramón Méndez 149. Imperial Coronel Miguel López 150. Princess Salm-Salm pleading before Juárez in San Luis Potosí 151. Military Council (court-martial) held at the Teatro Iturbide, Querétaro, 13 June 1867 152. Maximilian and his defense attorneys, 13 June 1867 153. Maximilian's farewell to Father Ficher, 19 June 1867 154. Execution of Maximilian, Miramón, and Mejía, 19 June 1867 155. Embalmed body of Maximilian, Querétaro, 20 June 1867 156. Funeral services for Maximilian, Cathedral of Vienna, November 1867 157. Burial crypt of Maximilian, Imperial Chapel at Vienna, 22 June 1867 158. Baron de Magnus, who was commissioned by Maximilian t escort his body to Vienna in the company of the Prince and Princess of Salm-Salm and the Admiral Tejetob, 1867 159. Drawing of Princess Salm-Salm, 1867 160. Mariano Ruiz, teniente de Estado Mayor, head of escort for Maximilian's body to Puebla, October 1867 161. General Santiago Vidaurri, governor of Nuevo León, who betrayed President Juárez, Monterrey, 1862 162. General Tomas d'Horan who betrayed the country by joining the French in 1862 163. General Mariano Escobedo, Commander-in-chief of the Army of the North. Mariano Ruiz was sub-teniente in the republican forces during Maximilian's reign, 1864-1867, and Jefe Superior until 1876 164. Conde de Athon, aid-de-camp of Maximilian, 1865 165. Manuel Lozada, "El Tigre de Alica," in the uniform of General de Division which was given to him by Maximilian, 1865 166. Manuel Lozada killed by a firing squad, Tepic, 5 June 1873 167. Sra. Carmen R.R. viuda de Díaz, 1926 168. General Porfirio Díaz, President of the Republic, reviewing troops at Guarnición de México at Llanos de San Lázaro on the anniversary of 1867, 2 April 1907 169. General Porfirio Díaz when he escaped by boat, June 1876. Mariano Ruiz was involved in the adventure to capture Díaz 170. General P. Díaz when he renounced the presidency, 10 April 1911 171. General Porfirio Díaz and U.S. President William Howard Taft, Ciudad Juárez, November 1910 172. José I. Limantour, ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público, 1910 173. General Mariano Ruiz and Mr. Ingram, vice-president and general manager, Southern Pacific Railroad of Mexico, at station named in Ruiz's honor [Chihuahua?]. This was at the time that Ruiz was involved in uncovering the Taft's machinations against Profirio Díaz, 1910 174. General de División Mariano Ruiz, 1926 Clippings Dr.37Princess Salm-Salm Dr.371. "A tragic page of Amrican history," The New Voice, New York, 22 April 1898 Dr.372. "Real American princess visiting in Cleveland," Dr.373. "How Abraham Lincoln was Hobsonized," New York Herald, 11 June 1904 Dr.374. "Princess Agnes Salm-Salm in Chicago," N.s., N.d. Dr.375. "At the White House," The Evening Star, 17 April 1899 Dr.375. Various, 1899 Dr.37Edmund L. Joy Dr.37Biography Dr.37Picture prints (2)