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In MEX, he cast dice to see who would be hanged for bearing arms against Spain, spent 10 years in captivity, including a year in a dismal dungeon at Acapulco with only a white lizard for a companion, and gained his freedom to make gunpowder for the rebels during the 1st Mexican War of Independence.
He finally sailed home in pirate Jean Laffitte's ship. He filibustered ( participated in a military adventure in a foreign country) with Philip Nolan in Texas in 1800, and 10 years later, when he rode with Jose Maria Morelos y Pavon, who was later president of independent Mexico, Bean saw Texas gain her independence from the Mexicans in 1836 and 9 years later join the Union.
He died in Mexico on Oct. 3, 1846 at the home of his Spanish wife of 40 years to whom he had returned after marrying a Tennessee girl and raising a family in Texas.