The Legend of Zorro

<h2>Historical references</h2>
<p data-rte-fromparser="true"><i>The Legend of Zorro</i> continues its predecessor's inclusion of historical elements of California history into the fiction, though many liberties have been taken.
</p><p data-rte-fromparser="true" data-rte-empty-lines-before="1">Alejandro, the Mexican-born Californian who became Zorro at the end of <i>The Mask of Zorro</i>, is a fictional brother to Joaquin Murrieta, for whom the character's son Joaquin is named. Military governor Bennet Riley, the last of California's heads of state prior to statehood, is portrayed, but the Maryland-born American is played by the Mexican actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., and speaks English with a Hispanic accent. Leo Burmester plays R. S. Beauregard, a Confederate colonel whose character is not to be confused with the historical P.G.T. Beauregard. Pedro Mira plays pre-Presidential Abraham Lincoln as an observer to California's statehood, though the real Lincoln never traveled to the region.
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