[MeekOneGOP]

The siege and final battle at the Alamo is better known, but the Goliad massacre is credited by many historians
with generating support for the Texas cause both within Texas and in the United States................

Google Search: "The Goliad Texas Massacre photos"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=The+Goliad+Texas+Massacre+photos

Goliad Massacre Story Link
http://www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/cfair/massacre.html

Texas Revolution Website
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/texas.htm

Link to more San Antonio photos
http://www.virtualtexan.com/history/museum/saphoto.htm

San Antonio-Goliad Site Link
http://www.karnes-city.isd.tenet.edu/cfair/corridor.html

TEXAS HISTORY AND CULTURE
http://pw1.netcom.com/~wandaron/txhist.html

Quicktime movie of a 1996 reinactment of the Battle of
Coleto Creek. Warning: it is very large, over 5 megs
http://206.76.136.3/cfair/battle.mov

Map of Texas in 1836

[MeekOneGOP]

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[IronJack]

An interesting bit of Texas history. I wonder how many Texans, let alone Americans in general, know about THAT little incident. Probably very few. We're too wracked with guilt about our shabby treatment of illegal immigrants.

[Mulder]

Thanks for the great post.

Many brave men died so that Texas could be free from tyranny.

[MadelineZapeezda]

Thanks for the post. My 5th grade daughter was just learning about this last week.

[DallasMike]

Thanks for the very nice post. My father's ancestors were given the area around Goliad and Gonzales by Stephen F. Austin. They had settled the area and had minor roles in the war for Texas independence. Of course, they had buffoons for grandchildren who gambled all but about 640 acres of it away in the 1880s -- otherwise I would be typing this e-mail from my pleasure palace in Monaco or Tahiti. For every ancestor to be proud of, there's at least another that you'd rather forget.

For the benefit of the non-Texans here, Goliad is pronounced GOAL-ee-add.

[Free the USA]

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[Sinbad]

Young Ehrenberg certainly lived an interesting life. He was murdered in the late 1860s and was buried by Barry Goldwater's grandfather. Another great story of a Goliad Massacre survivor is told by John C. Duval in his book Early Times in Texas. Duval, whose brother was executed during the massacre, managed to escape the Mexican cavalry and roamed the widerness of Texas for weeks before hearing news of the victory at San Jacinto.

[Jane Dough]

I'm a South Texan & everyone I know is aware of 'Remember Goliad!' Col. Fannin is legendary.

Just this morn there was a discussion on talk radio about Ron Howard coming to Goliad as part of his research for an upcoming movie on the Alamo. It would be nice to include the tragedy that occured at Goliad. Most folks never heard of this event...

[VOA]

Most historians agree that 342 men were executed at Goliad and 28 escaped.

Why less than 10,000 US soldiers were able to conquer Mexico...these guys weren't even
competent enough to execute unarmed men!
(I'll give the poor Mexican Army grunt the benefit of the doubt...maybe a few flinched when
ordered to carry out this task.)

I was shocked that PBS actually portrayed the screwed-up state of the Mexican army under
Santa Ana during their series on The Mexican-American War.
There is really something wrong with a country that will let less than 10,000 men subdue them,
including a capital city with a sizable population (500,000-800,000 at the time?).

[Don Myers]

bttt

[Come And Take It]

Ping

[lonestar]

I just love being a Texan! Thanks for refreshing my memory of this part of our history.

[Come And Take It]

Crowds drawn to Goliad re-enactment

[DrNo]

Thank you for posting this!

I have recently discovered that I may have had a relative killed at Goliad.

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[philman_36]

I know that somewhere on FR is a post of mine that says "Remember the Alamo. Remember Goliad."
I've recalled it before, and I'm not likely to forget it.
Nor Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, Gettysburg, Bull Run/Manassas, Dunkirk, Dieppe, Iwo Jima, the Ardennes, Guadalcanal and many other places.
Lest we forget...

[ladtx]

A BIG TEXAS BUMP FOR ALL US TEXICANS.

[BUSHdude2000]

IS there anybody here who knows whether this is a factual account or not? I read these stories every year, and there is almost always a slightly different version of all these stories around this time. Unfortunately, I was educated in the Texas public school system, so I have no idea what really happened.

[Black Agnes]

Funny, I see 'Comanches' on that map...but not Aztlan...