Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. Thanks for listening and especially thanks for telling your friends about the show. Our audience is growing every day and the feedback has been absolutely tremendous.

Now this podcast is a lot of work, but it's also a lot of fun telling the stories of Texas history and doing my part to preserve the fascinating history of this great

state.

Well, we're 180 years from the Texas Revolution and we're in the time period that the revolution occurred.

So we've been focused on those events on the show and the people involved.

Now this episode is being released on March 28th, 2016, and yesterday, March 27th, was the 180th anniversary of the Massacre at Goliad, so this episode

will deal with that event.

So let's go back to Palm Sunday, 1836, and get wise about Texas.

After the fall of the Alamo, the citizens of Gonzales and points east of Gonzales began fleeing to the east away from the

advancing army of Santa Ana. This escape came to be known as the runaway

scrape, but Colonel James Fannin and a force of about 300 men remained in a fort known as

Presidio Labahilla in Goliad. Presidio Labahilla translates,

Presidio's Fort Labahilla translates to the bay, was originally located on what was then called Labahia de la Spiritusantu,

or the Bay of the Holy Spirit, which is now known as part of Madigorda Bay and Lavaca Bay.

The mission was moved inland twice and in 1749 was moved to the north

side of the San Antonio River near the present day town of Goliad. The fort was built on the

south side of the river and the mission on the north and it still stands there today.

Now the Texians had taken La Bahia on October 10th, 1835.

A couple of interesting things about this event.

First, under orders from Santa Ana, General Martin Perfecto de Koss,

now that was Santa Ana's brother-in-law, as you'll recall from prior episodes,

had landed in Texas with about 500 men, and he landed at Kapano Bay.

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