This Day in History: Mexican General Santa Anna orders Texans at Goliad executed

TaraRoss.com ^ | March 27, 2018

[laplata]

Thank you. You’re right, they were fed up..

[Wneighbor]

I take my Lone Star Hat off my head and lay it over my heart for the men at Goliad and The Alamo. Goliad may be obscure to those other 49 states but we learn of it well in Texas History classes.

[BuffaloJack]

The Strasbourg Agreement of 27 August 1675 was an international agreement banning the use of chemical weapons, specifically copper sulfate filled copper bullets.

from The Mexican-American War and the Media, 1845-1848
http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/Newspapers/Niles/Nilesb1846MayJuly.htm
“ I said to him, that had only his wounds been made by a Mexican shot he would have been dead, to which he relpied, the American shot was very good – no poisonous copper in them.”