they have a fancy "m" and that's for muralos battalion. we found this which is cool. i date it as pre-1821. after 1821 all the mexican eagles faced the other direction. you can tell this was older style with no snake or anything, but what's really neat about this is that it could easily come from an officer who fought in the army of three guarantees when mexico won their independence in 1821. so the sea of mud was quite a story for me and i ended up having so much research and so much information i felt like i had to write a book. otherwise, i was afraid at best my papers would end up in a library where a researcher may see them on a very rare occasion. one of the sources that i used for my book was the analysis of the military diary of general jose oraya. it had never been translated. well, as soon as i finished my book a doctor in dallas who had an original copy contacted dr. jim crisp at north carolina state who sent him to see me who said i would be the guy to help him get this translated. the doctor was willing to pay for it. it's amazing, if you have the money t