Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat
Greetings, everyone. As I write this, it is Saturday morning, March 6th, and I am in San Antonio staying at the Hotel Gibbs. I arrived in San Antonio at 1 AM after speaking at a Veterans Memorial event in Murphy, Texas. My room is on the 6th floor, in the corner, overlooking The Alamo battlefield. I was truly tired upon getting into my room, but I opened up the curtains and looked down upon the Alamo in the city lights, and the aforementioned Latin quote came to mind, “Fortune Favors the Bold.”
There have been many different attributions of this quote, including Alexander the Great. However, when one considers those words, and this day, it embodies the defenders of The Alamo, led by a 26-year-old, Lt. Col. William Barret Travis.
Texas history remembering the massacre at Goliad
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KEN BRIDGES
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 the midst of these losses, one of the darkest incidents of the war occurred as more than 400 prisoners were executed at Goliad.
The Texas Revolution began in November 1835 after long-simmering disputes with Mexico exploded into open warfare. Events in Texas were part of a series of uprisings and rebellions that spread across Mexico, which had the effect of eroding the forces still loyal to the government. The commander of the Mexican Army, Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, declared in December that any foreign prisoners taken would be immediately executed. Santa Anna was president of Mexico 11 times in its turbulent early history, willing to overthrow elected governments and subvert Mexican law whenever it suited him.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (KTRK) It has been 185 years since the Alamo fell to Mexican forces.
On February 23, 1836, a Mexican force of 1,500 men commanded by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a siege of the fort.
The Alamo had 18 cannons and around 189 members of the Texian Army at the beginning of the siege. Santa Anna s terms were surrender at discretion, which meant he would decide the fate of the Texans, according to thealamo.org.
Commander William B. Travis answered Santa Anna s offer with a cannon shot.
The Alamo held out for 13 days, but on the morning of March 6, the Mexican forces broke through the outer wall of the courtyard and overpowered them. Fighting lasted roughly 90 minutes. By 8 a.m., every Alamo defender was dead, according to the Handbook of Texas. While 189 were officially listed, research suggests the final death toll could have been as high as 257.
Battle of Goliad Map brings $250K to lead $1.7 million Heritage Americana & Political Auction
One of Texas Revolutions earliest printed records, map had not been seen in public since 1966.
DALLAS, TX
.- One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, unseen since 1966, soared to $250,000 to lead Heritage Auctions Feb. 27-28 Americana & Political Auction to $1,695,964 in total sales.
The two-day event boasted sell-through rates of 98.1% by lots sold, and 95.9% by value sold, and drew an impressive 1,669 bidders.
One of the earliest and most important contemporary printed records of the Texas Revolution, Fort Defiance: 1836 Joseph Chadwick Map of Col. James Fannin s Defenses at the Historic Site of the Battle of Goliad raced past its pre-auction estimate of $100,000 before finishing at $250,000. The map drawn by Fannin s adjutant, Joseph Chadwick and sent to Chadwick s mother shortly before the pair died. The story of the Texas R
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