Rio Grande. Death As the Empire collapsed in 1867 and Emperor Maximilian was captured, Vidaurri was arrested by a squadron "and executed without a trial as a traitor to the Mexican nation." Legacy Although Vidaurri is often written out of the historiography of Mexico or disparaged for his support of the Second Mexican Empire, he remains an important historical figure in his home state of Nuevo León. A 2007 attempt to erect a statue of Vidaurri in Lampazos, where he was born, was embroiled in controversy. On April 23, 1857, his daughter, Prudenciana Vidaurri, married prominent Irish businessman Patrick Milmo O'Dowd, of Irish descent, who profited from the cotton trade with the Confederate States of America. The family continued to play an important role in late nineteenth-century Monterrey. The union produced a son, Patricio Milmo Vidaurri, who would marry Patricia Hickman Morales. Patricio and Patricia become the parents of Laura Milmo Hickman, wife of Emilio Azcarraga Vidaurreta, pioneer of Mexican television and one of the founders of Televisa. Emilio and Laura were the parents of famous Mexican entrepreneur Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, father in turn of the current board president of Grupo Televisa, Emilio Azcarraga Jean. Further reading Broussard, Ray F. "Vidaurri, Juárez, and Comonfort's Return from Exile." Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 49, No. 2 (May 1969), pp. 268–280. Cavazos Garza, Israel,ed. Epistolario Zaragoza-Vidaurri, 1855–1859. Mexico City: Primer Congreso Nacional de Historia para el Estudio de la Guerra de Intervención, 1962. Hamnett, Brian. Juárez. New York: Longman 1994. Mahoney, Harry T. and Marjorie Locke Mahoney. Mexico and the Confederacy, 1860–67. San Francisco: Austin & Winfield 1998. Martínez Sánchez, Lucas. Coahuila durante la Intervención Francesa, 1860–1867. Saltillo, Coahuila: Consejo Editorial del Estado 2008. Mora-Torres, Juan. The Making of the Mexican Border: The State, Capitalism, and Society in Nuevo León, 1848–1910. Austin: University of Texas Press 2001. Moseley, Edward H. "The Public Career of Santiago Vidaurri, 1855-1858". PhD dissertation, University of Alabama 1963. Moseley, Edward H. "Santiago Vidaurri: héroe de la reforma," Humánitas (1970) Moseley, Edward H. "Santiago Vidaurri, Champion of States' Rights: 1855-1857" West Georgia College Studies in the Social Sciences, VI, (June 1967), 69-80 Owsley, Frank Lawrence, King Cotton Diplomacy: Foreign Relations of the Confederate States of America. 2nd. edition, rev. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1959. Roel, Santiago, ed. Correspondencia particular de Santiago Vidaurri, gobernador de Nuevo León. Monterrey 1946. Tyler, R. Curtis. Santiago Vidaurri and the Southern Confederacy.