Letters written by a volunteer from Louisville, Kentucky, who came to fight with the San Antonio Greys and died in the massacre at Goliad, shed some light on the hard conditions that some soldiers ...

On April 21, 1836, at a site on the San Jacinto River outside present day Houston, a small army of civilian volunteers led by Gen. Sam Houston routed a much larger army led by the Mexican dictator ...

Editor’s note: This is another in an ongoing series of articles we call “Marking History” looking at the stories behind the hundreds of historic markers scattered about the Crossroads. In October 1835 ...

John Willingham long has been fascinated with the horrific “Goliad Massacre,” which came three weeks after the 1836 Battle of the Alamo and further riled the Texans in their war for independence. When ...

The Goliad massacre occurred on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, three weeks to the day after the fall of the Alamo. About three weeks later Sam Houston led Texian forces to a surprise victory at the ...

One of the darkest days of Texas’s fight for independence against Mexico was March 27, 1836. The Goliad Massacre was a grim showcase of brutality, and it still weighs heavy in people’s memory of the ...

In her exquisite book “Unsung Texas Heroes” published in 1985, Texas historian Ann Ruff reports on the heroics of Francisca Alvarez (or Fancita Alavèz) during the Texas Revolution against Mexico in ...

March 1836 began with high hopes and idealism for Texas forces trying to free themselves from Mexico, but a string of military disasters pushed the Texas army to the edge of collapse. In the midst of ...

The month of March 1836 began with high hopes and idealism for Texas forces trying to free themselves from Mexico, but a string of military disasters pushed the Texas army to the edge of collapse. In ...