Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas history podcast. Thanks for listening and especially thanks for telling your friends about the show.

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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 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 28, 2016,

and yesterday, March 27th, was the 180th anniversary of the massacre at Goliath, 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 Fanon, in a force of about 300 men, remained in a fort known as Presidio Labahia in Goliad.

Presidio Labahia translates, Presidio as fort, Labahia translates to the bay, was originally

located on what was then called Labahia de la Spiritu Santo, or the Bay of the Holy Spirit,

which is now known as part of Madagora 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 Texans had taken Labahia on October 10, 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

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