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Professors To Preserve Memoirs Of Distinguished Mexican GeneralMexican -history from the Diaz by most Mexicans as a deliver-ALPINE (Special) — The search for facts about a Mexican general who served in Pan-cho Villa's army during the early years wras sparked after two Sul Ross State University history professors discovered one of the General's sons is a Sul Ross student.Bernardo Quinones, junior range animal science major, is the son of distinguished Mexican army officer, Gen. Jesus Quinones of Cuidad Acuna, Coa-huila, Mexico.The two Sul Ross faculty members are planning to record on tape the memoirs ofdier was in charge of Villa’s honor guard.The professors, Dr. James Hindman and Dr. James Se-crest, both assistant professors of history, were accompanied to the Quinones home by the general’s sons. The two professors spent several hours with the general as he rememberedsome of his many memories in a taped interview.The project is aimed at establishing a tape library which can be used by future students of history at Sul Ross.Hindman and Secrest said they were greatly impressedby the general, whose life spansera, through the Mexican Revolution to the present.Born in Durango, in central Mexico, in the last decade of the 19th century. Gen. Jaime Quinones attended school there and later worked on a ranch near Inde, where his father was a ranch foreman. When the revolution began, he borrowed a horse and rifle from his father and joined a band under Rosa-lio Hernandez.Stories were circulating at the time of the imminent arrival of the revolution’s instigator.ance from the tyranny of the Diaz dictatorship.Genl Quinones served in Pan-cho Villa's army during the early years of the revolution, knew him well when he was in charge of his honor guard at one time. The general still speaks fondly of Villa and remembers him as an able commander and a man well deserving of the loyalty which he commanded during the turbulent years of the Mexican Revo- •*' lution. Secret said.trous battles is central Mexico, Gen. Quinones’ chief incorporated his unit into the forces of Venustiano Carranza and the general's long service in the federal army dates from that period.One of the many stories which the general related to the two professors was an incident which took place in the summer of 1916, when he was in charge of a small outpost in Chihuahua. Villa's forces had raided Columbus, N. M. and the United States had sent an army under General John Pershing deep into Mexico in a futile attempt to seize Villa or at leasthelp break up his army.It was the second American invasion of Mexico within two years and the Mexican government was deeply suspicious of United States’ intentions. Having received instructions to stop any American army probes in his area, Gen. Quinones, then a young lieutenant, found himself facing a strong American ol-umn under an equally young American lieutenant one warm summer day. Speaking through an interpreter who accompanied the American expedition, Quinones told the young officer that he was there to stop him and that there would be a fightif he tried to push any further south. There were, in fact, several skirmishes between Mexican and American forces during the Pershing expedition, but in this case the American officer decided to parley instead of fight and he was persuaded to simply get a message off.Years later, Gen. Quinones met that same American officer whom he had faced before In Chihuahua. It was at an officer’s club in a United States’ army post and they smiled and laughed at that tense meeting years previously. The officer was George C. Patton, later to See General page 10Quinones, who as a young solIn 1915, with Villa’s heyday Francisco Madero, and the passed and his army on theblessed revolution was seen wane after a series of disas-
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Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Tue, May 15, 1973
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