How do you? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. Well, the show hit a modern day milestone this last couple of weeks. We got over 1,000 likes on

Facebook and I certainly appreciate that. We had over 2,500 downloads in

March alone so this show is being really well received and I

truly appreciate everybody who's been listening and communicating with me.

Well you know it's been 180 years since the Texas Revolution and during this March and April time frame

I've been covering the events of the Revolution. In this episode we're going to discuss the movement of the Texas Army

as it approached that fateful meeting at

San Jacinto on April 21st, 1836. So let's go back 180 years to March in April, 1836, and get wise about Texas.

The Alamo fell on March 6, 1836, and on March 27th,

Fanon and his men were massacred at Goliad.

Sam Houston had arrived at Gonzales between those two events on March 11th

to take command of the army.

Upon learning of the fall of the Alamo from Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson about March 13th,

Houston ordered an immediate retreat and ordered the citizens to accompany the army and

heading for the Colorado River. He also ordered Fanon to abandon Goliad and that order was blatantly disobeyed by

Fanon. If Houston could take his roughly 375 men though and hook up with Fanon's 400 men

Houston thought that the Mexican Army could be defeated on the Colorado River

well when Houston called for the retreat the citizens dropped what they were doing and fled.

The army assembled and began marching east on the night of March the 13th.

The army marched for four days and reached Burnham's crossing on the Colorado River on March 17th.

Now Burnham's crossing or Burnham's Ferry is it sometimes called was founded in

1824 by a man named Jesse Burnham.

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