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the human body is an odd thing incredibly fragile at the same time surprisingly resilient on the one
hand even the most seemingly minor injuries can result in an untimely death for example in october
1911 jack daniel founder of the famous tennessee distillery entered his office and attempted to
open the safe but the lock proved troublesome and after trying and failing several times to open
the door he lost his temper and kicked the safe breaking his toe in the process infection soon
set in and daniel died within days on the other hand however many individuals throughout history
have demonstrated the ability to absorb punishment that would kill the average person and still keep
on breathing perhaps the most famous clutch case was the early 20th century russian mystic grigori
rasputin who according to legend survived being poisoned beaten shot and dumped in a frozen river
before finally shuffling off his mortal coil but even the mad monk has nothing on a humble soldier
in the mexican revolution who in an astronomical stroke of luck stared down a firing squad
and lived to tell the tale this is the incredible story of wenceslam miguel herrera aka el fusilado
the mexican revolution was not a unified struggle but rather a series of regional upbringings which
raged across the country between 1910 and 1920. these uprisings were triggered by widespread
dissatisfaction with the three decades-long regime of president porfirio diaz whose corrupt and
oligarchical policies favored wealthy landowners and industrialists over the largely poor and
agrarian population in 1908 diaz expressed ambivalence over running for a seventh term
prompting liberal landowner francisco madeiro to announce his candidacy for president in response
diaz had madeira arrested and declared himself the winner of a mock election held in 1910. this
proved to be a mistake for upon his release from prison madero published a manifesto the
plan de san luis potosi calling for a nationwide revolt against diaz's government on november 20th
madeira's manifesto spurred rebel leaders across the country to raise small armies of irregulars
and wage a bloody campaign against local politicians and wealthy landowners these included
such soon-to-be legendary figures as francisco panchovia in the north and emiliano zapata in the
south in the spring of 1911 the rebels succeeded in overthrowing diaz's regime and installing
madeira as president but this was far from the end of mexico's troubles madeira proved disappointing
as a leader refusing to enact the economic reforms that the rebels had fought for such
as the return of traditional lands to the native mexicans eventually the generals who had fought
to install madeira turned against him and the country erupted once more into a bloody civil war
at the same time the united states grew concerned that the escalating conflict threatened american
business interests in the region prompting u.s ambassador to mexico henry lane wilson to sign a
secret pact to install madeira's chief of staff of the army victoriano huerta as president the coup
took place on february 22 1913 with cuerta having madero arrested and summarily shot huerta proved
as corrupt and tyrannical as diaz had been and the rebel leaders via anzapata along with venestiano
carranza and alvaro obregon formed an alliance in order to depose him these constitutionalist forces
soon gained the support of newly elected u.s president woodrow wilson who authorized shipments
of arms to the rebels and even sent marines to occupy the port of veracruz to prevent cuerta's
forces from being resupplied from abroad after a series of military victories in july 1914 the
rebels took mexico city and huerta fled into exile on august 20th carranza declared himself president
an act which did not sit well with the other rebel leaders the uneasy alliance immediately
disintegrated anarchy and bloodshed reigning as the various rebel factions struggled for power
finally carrenza agreed to step down and eulelio gutierrez was elected as interim president this
however did little to quell the rivalry between the rebel leaders and while via allied himself
with zapata and back gutierrez's government obregon carrenza formed a rival faction and
attempted to drive the vallistas and zapatistas out of the country fighting during this period
was especially brutal with both sides employing scorched earth tactics and summarily executing
any prisoners that they captured it is during this bloody phase of the revolution that the story of
el fuziolado takes place in early 1915 25 year old wenceslam miguel herrera a native of yucatan
province was serving with a group of irregulars under panchobia inexperienced and poorly armed on
march the 18th miguel's unit was easily defeated and captured by federale's forces outside the town
of hallacho as was common practice the commander of the federalists colonel ortiz immediately
ordered the released its troops shot a fiery squad of eight men was assembled and miguel and
his comrades were lined up against the wall of a church blindfolded given one last cigarette and
executed with the volley a rifle fire while most of his comrades died instantly miraculously miguel
survived the first volley with the eight bullets managing to miss his vital organs but his ordeal
wasn't over yet for colonel ortiz then strode up to the pile of crumpled bodies to administer the
coup de gras finding miguel still breathing ortiz pressed the revolver against the prisoner's head
and pulled the trigger while such a point-blank shot would have killed most people as you might
have guessed miguel was not most people by another extraordinary stroke of luck the bullet entered
miguel's right cheek and exited under his left eye missing his brain entirely shocked to find himself
still alive and realizing that the next time he wouldn't be so lucky miguel held his breath and
pretended to be dead satisfied that all his prisoners had been dispatched colonel ortiz
and his troops packed up and marched off leaving the bodies where they lay accounts differ as to
what happened next with some claiming miguel was discovered by passing federale's forces and given
medical attention others claim that miguel riddled with holes and in excruciating pain managed to
drag himself three blocks the church of james the apostle where a parishioner took him in sewed
up his wounds and nursed him back to health this latter feet seems particularly unbelievable given
the weight of the massive horseshoe miguel must have had wedged up his backside whatever the case
the ordeal left miguel alive but badly disfigured but despite having escaped near certain death
miguel was still a wanted man and remained hidden in the church until well after the revolution had
ended the civil war had not gone well for the ballistas and zapatistas blaming u.s president
wilson's support of carranza for his failures in 1916 panchobia launched a campaign of retribution
against american settlements executing 34 american citizens in raids against santa
isabel and columbus new mexico in retaliation wilson dispatched an american expeditionary
force under general john jay pershing into mexico to hunt down via a mission which ultimately failed
meanwhile coranza seized power in 1916 and enacted policies that confiscated land from
wealthy landowners guaranteed workers rights and limited the long-held power of the catholic church
but carranza also ruled with an iron fist maintaining power by executing his opponents
including emiliano zapata in 1919. after trying to break up a railroad strike in 1920 karan's
supporters turned against him and he was shot while attempting to flee the capital on may
the 21st adolfo de la huerta served as interim president until the election of alvaro obregon
in november this is usually considered to be the end of the mexican revolution with his main rival
karan's are dead panchavia negotiated an end to the fighting and entered retirement using the
mexican and american press to immortalize his image as a revolutionary hero and even
appearing as himself in films about his exploits he was assassinated outside his ranch in peral
on july 20 1923 likely on the orders of president obregon as for miguel word of his extraordinary
survival spread throughout mexico earning him the incredibly badass nickname of el fuzilado or the
executed one but life in post-revolutionary mexico was hard for miguel and in 1930 he emigrated to
the united states in search of a better life while few in the u.s had heard of miguel
his pronounced disfigurement attracted attention wherever he went eventually bringing miguel to
the attention of cartoonist and perveya of the weird and wonderful jack ripley on july the 16th
1937 miguel appeared as a guest on ripley's radio show introducing his story to the american public
and turning him into a minor celebrity miguel toured the united states for several years
before finally returning to mexico and his home in yucatan province incredibly he lived a long
and healthy life passing away on july 29 1976 at the ripe old age of 86 rasputin eat your heart out
so i hope you enjoyed today's video if you did why not check out a video i've recently
made on a new channel the mexican american war interesting expansion of some of the history
we touched on in today's video it's linked on the screen now and thank you for watching
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