around and come back. the whole time, travis think they are coming. what do sam houston tell jim fannin and company to do? around the 10th of march or so, they receive a letter from houston as is gather your forces and supplies you ve got, and head east come and join with me. by that point, the garrison knows the alamo has fallen. the texans realize it is time to gather up the forces they have and consolidate. before vacating goliad, fannin receives word that a company of his men are pinned down to mexico. he sends reinforcers to extricate the men. back to goliad. but the men would not make the return trip. part of the men that were there were killed. the other part of the men that were there break off across the prairie, headed back toward victoria, and what slows down fannin as he doesn t know what is going on. he doesn t have anywhere to what what is taking place. n so we sense to go continges down. doesn t find out what s happening. munication is terrible. then he finally
speak of the state of the texas revolution was dire. 400 lost at goliad, weeks earlier 200 lost at the alamo. sam houston knew, win or lose, his next battle would be his last. forcing him to make his most controversial decision tode dat. when we come back on sam houston and the texas fight for freedom, that decision and more. more. (male announcer) make this a christmas to remember
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idea. i think i m going to i leave. i look around, this is a fortress, it stands hundreds of years later. i m wondering, would you have been better off staying? the problem with any of these fortifications, just like the alamo, is once you dig in and one spot, you can be surrounded fairly easily. jim s 22 jim fannin leaves, and theybegi. fannin is told by general urea that he can return to goliad, where he and his men will be sa, prisoners of war. but this turned out to be alive. the men are march and executed. if you would escape to tell their story. they don tid just kill the m. they don t let them onto their fate. they are holed up in the church right here, broken up into three groups groups told they are going to bd collecting water, so they can cook and clean with. there marched about a mile out of the fort. they are halted the mexican
book. y18 minutes? that is the amount of time it took them to completely surprise the army. wait a second, the group that got annihilated at the alamo, got massacred at goliad, takes 18 minutes to defeat santa ana right here? they achieve the ultimate surprise, the most lopsided victory american history. we have a scale model of what we are seeing. the mexicans are over there. they arrive first. right. they are sitting there, they are kind of undercover, right? is theres, a wooded area? a lot of big oaks, moss hanging from the trees. 2,000 guys? more than 1500 guys, plus. than you ve sam houston s guys. they are that way. how many do they have? 937, by my best count. it was here? we are almost in the mid section where it was. this is where you have a slight rise in the hill that help the texans as they were coming across their camp heading to the