Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wies. Thank you very much for

tuning in today for a little bit of Texas history. This episode is being

recorded and released in the eighty sixth anniversary time period with the Texas Revolution

what many of us call the high holy days of Texas history since the

Texas Revolution is one of those things that makes Texas so unique as a place and did much

to reveal the shape and character of Texans and we're proud of it. On March 27th, 1836,

one of the saddest and most disturbing acts of the Texas Revolution

occurred at Goliad. The massacre of

of hundreds of Texan prisoners on the orders of Mexican dictator

Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. But he didn't get everybody.

So we're going to go back to March 1836 and get wise about Texas.

Let me start by giving you a quick summary of what happened prior to the Goliad

massacre and most of you listening probably know something about this story,

but the nutshell version is James Fannen was commanding a garrison at Persidio Labahilla. He decided to leave and head toward

Victoria but he was too late. He couldn't move his army very well. He got bogged down and he ended up getting surrounded by

some some Mexican soldiers under the command of General Urea and there was a

battle called the Battle of Caledo Creek.

And Fanon ended up surrendering under terms.

Santa Ana ordered all the prisoners executed. They were held at

Persidio Labahilla and on Palm Sunday 1836 which fell on March 27th.

They were split into three groups, marched three different directions from the fort, and on orders of Santa Ana, the Mexican Army executed them all.

Or did they?

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