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1836: Goliad Massacre
ExecutedToday.com ^ | March 27, 2009 | Headsman

Posted on 03/26/2020 8:33:22 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1836 — Palm Sunday, as it happened — over 300 Anglo POWs fighting to separate Texas from Mexico were executed en masse outside Goliad’s fortress

Less widely celebrated than the Battle of the Alamo preceding it by a fortnight, the Battle of Coleto on March 19-20 had seen Mexican troops surround and capture another force of Texians at Goliad.

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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; goliadmassacre; mexico; texas

1 posted on 03/26/2020 8:33:22 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

2 posted on 03/26/2020 8:49:37 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: CheshireTheCat

Bump.


3 posted on 03/26/2020 9:07:19 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: CheshireTheCat

See, the “anglos” weren’t Americans...cuz everyone’s an American!

They couldn’t say that there were Americans and Mexicans because...those Mexican troops were just as American as you and me!

Got it?

It was “Ahn-glows” who we would now be forced to call “European-Americans” or just whites without any nationality tied to them. The Mexican troops would be Mexican-Americans of course, misunderstood and victimized poverty stricken Mestizos who were only expressing themselves the way they can!

The whole world is now hyphenated, just not...the actual Americans.


4 posted on 03/26/2020 9:12:56 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: CheshireTheCat

Wonder if the guys at Alamo knew about that? I’m bettin they did. Malmedy in WWII, word got out and Hilter had his ass handed to him. Live free or die. IMO.


5 posted on 03/26/2020 9:13:50 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: Equine1952

Alamo was a few weeks before. BUT, at the Battle at Jacinto, a month later, Sam Houston’s men yelled “Remember the Alamo!” and “Remember Goliad!” as they slaughtered Santa Ana’s invaders in 18 minutes. The birth of Texas’ national Independence soon followed.


6 posted on 03/26/2020 9:31:14 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Regulator

Most of the Mexican troops in this war would’ve been considered white these days.


7 posted on 03/26/2020 10:02:57 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Meskins are white. Don’t buy into the PC crap.


8 posted on 03/26/2020 10:18:11 PM PDT by SanchoP (Living your life in fear is merely existing. You might as well be dead already.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I watched an entertaining ten part miniseries on Prime video,”Texas Rising,” about these events, from the aftermath of the Alamo to Jacinto and the beginnings of the Texas republic.

It was originally aired on the History channel in 2014. Bill Paxton as Sam Houston, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Deaf Smith, Kris Kristofferson as Andrew Jackson.

For historical precision I’m sure it’s not perfect, but it was a fun entertaining western.


9 posted on 03/26/2020 10:44:18 PM PDT by moonhawk (I need a new tagline.)
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To: Regulator
It was “Ahn-glows” who we would now be forced to call “European-Americans” or just whites without any nationality tied to them.

I was stationed with the USAF in Sacramento in 1976.   A Hispanic Sgt. from our shop invited my wife and I to his apartment for dinner.   His family had lived in Brownsville for a few generations right on the river.   He told us that wetbacks would come through his Dad's property dying of thirst and they would give them a drink.   When we got to his apartment with his newlywed wife he said we were the first Anglos in his home.   I said you guys have only been married for a couple of months!   He said, no we didn't understand, he was counting his home growing up in Brownsville.   They had never had any Anglos at their house, ever.

He married well. His wife was pretty and from a wealthy family in Mexico City.   He is an accountant working for the State of California, probably retired now.

10 posted on 03/26/2020 11:59:56 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Fiddlstix

We’ve visited to site at Goliad a couple of times. The fort is beautifully restored as well as the old mission across the river. The mass grave of Col. Fannin and his men is close by. Not far north is the town of Gonzalez with the “Come and take it” cannon in a museum.


11 posted on 03/27/2020 6:53:46 AM PDT by MisterArtery
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Thanks CheshireTheCat.

12 posted on 03/27/2020 6:55:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Fiddlstix

This event in Texas history was also the origination for the iconic Texas flag which portrayed a cannon with the words “come and take it.”

Goliad was a very small town. A fort and mission were central to the town and had a cannon for defense against the Indians. The Texian forces appropriated the cannon before the Mexican army arrived and the flag was in response for a call to surrender the cannon..


13 posted on 03/27/2020 9:55:22 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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To: CheshireTheCat
Remember Goliad!! was also the battle cry At San Jacinto along with Remember the Alamo.
14 posted on 03/27/2020 12:42:42 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: CheshireTheCat

Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! God Bless Texas!


15 posted on 03/27/2020 12:45:50 PM PDT by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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To: oldplayer

Sam Houston had several Hispanic units under his command that day they block the bridge that was Santa Anna’s route of retreat.


16 posted on 03/27/2020 12:47:02 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: fella

Juan Seguin, Flores, Benevides and other Tejanos have long been recognized as heros of Texas Independence. (Seguin honorably survived the Battle of the Alamo, moving between the lines numerous times with messages.) I love that the libs don’t know how to deal with this. Their contributions are celebrated by true Texas conservatives and historians. Libs? Crickets because it doesn’t fit the narrative.


17 posted on 03/27/2020 12:55:01 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: oldplayer

Thank you.

Not having my source books handy My old pate couldn’t recall their names.


18 posted on 03/27/2020 1:10:51 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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