William C. Falkner

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Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

The grandfather of novelist William F. Faulkner (who altered the spelling), from Mississippi, USA, he volunteered for the Mexican War. He wrote The Siege of Monterey in 1851, a poem of around 4,000 lines and 493 stanzas. This was pronounced, “in all probability the strangest poetical composition in the language”. It includes the story of a Mexican girl disguised as a soldier and her soldier lover defending Monterrey. He also wrote “The Spanish Heroine; a tale of war and love. Scenes laid in Mexico”. (Johannsen, 209)

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1851

He wrote a poem, "The Siege of Monterey".

References

Johannsen, Robert W., (1985), To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination

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Gendering Latin American Independence

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