GOLIAD — A contingent of Mexican soldiers marched a ragged, tired group of Texans out of Goliad’s Presidio La Bahia. The procession was solemn and terminated in a wide open field blanketed by a sea of ...

One of the most notorious incidents of the Texas Revolution was the Goliad “Massacre,” the Santa Anna-ordered execution of the Texian prisoners captured after the Battle of Coleto Creek. While ...

GOLIAD, Texas (KWTX) - On March 27, 1836, 417 Texans were executed by firing squad in Goliad. Mexican dictator General Santa Anna had ordered that Texans fighting Mexico be treated as traitors, not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Texas history is coming to life this weekend at the 27th Annual Goliad Massacre-Fort Defiance at the Presidio La Bahia in Goliad. The director of the museum, Newton Warzecha, met with John Thomas on ...

SAN ANTONIO -- 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 ...