Ep 35 Remember Tampico! A forgotten battle of the Texas revolution
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
When discussing the Texas revolution, the battle of the Alamo, the Goliad massacre and the great victory at San Jacinto get most of the airtime. But there were several other military events in the time period leading up to Texas independence. One of these events was General Jose Mexia’s attack on the Mexican port city of Tampico. General Mexia thought he had organized federalist resistance to Santa Anna and that he would be welcomed to Tampico as a revolutionary leader. He ran into some bad luck and it didn’t quite work out as planned. Learn more about this incident in this episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. It is your host Ken Wise, and thank you very much for |
| 0:15.5 | tuning in today to get your Texas history fix. |
| 0:18.8 | Well, we're in that time of year that I like to call the High Holy Days of Texas History, 181 years since the |
| 0:25.8 | Texas Revolution. |
| 0:27.9 | This podcast is being released on February 28th, 2017, and during this time period in the soon to be Republic of Texas, |
| 0:37.4 | the Alamo was under siege and Travis was figuring out that nobody was coming to help him and that he was on his own. |
| 0:45.4 | But as he said in his letter that he wrote on February 24th, |
| 0:50.4 | he vowed to never surrender, declaring victory or death. |
| 0:55.0 | So this is a very important time period during Texas history and I definitely wanted to talk about the revolution, but there are some battles that really get a little bit of short shrift when we're talking about the Texas Revolution. |
| 1:12.2 | We tend to focus on the Alamo, the massacre at |
| 1:16.9 | Goliad, and then of course the great victory at the Battle of San Jacinto, |
| 1:20.5 | but we leave a lot of things out on the first and I did an episode on this in the early days of this podcast was the |
| 1:26.6 | siege of Behar when we when the Texas Revolutionaries took over San Antonio and kicked General Koss out. |
| 1:36.2 | That was a very, very important battle and had a lasting effect on the spirit of the men fighting. But there were some other battles that we really don't talk too much about. |
| 1:46.6 | So today we're going to talk about the invasion of Mexico at the port city of Tampico. |
| 1:55.0 | So let's go back to 1835 and get wise about Texas. |
| 2:00.0 | All right, to begin with, we've got to set the scene in Mexico in 1834 or actually |
| 2:09.0 | let's go back one more year to 1833 in 1833. In 1833, Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana was elected president of Mexico. His |
| 2:18.1 | vice president was Valentin Gomez-Farias and they were of different parties so just chew on that for a minute that |
| 2:26.1 | the president and vice president were of different political parties. |
| 2:33.4 | But then Santa Ana did something that would characterize many of his terms as president. |
| 2:39.2 | He went home. |
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