Ep. 36 More Forgotten Battles: San Patricio & Refugio

Wise About Texas

Ken Wise

Texans, Places & Travel, History, Texas, Culture, San, Education, Texan, Society & Culture, Jacinto, Cowboy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We all remember the Alamo, Goliad and San Jacinto but there were many more battles in the Texas revolution than are commonly discussed. A big issue at the time of the Texas revolution was whether to attack Matamoros, Mexico in hopes that federalist sympathizers would join forces with the Texians and achieve glorious victory over the centralists. The issue split the provisional government and almost dissolved into total chaos. Multiple individuals each thought they were in charge of the army. In the meantime, fighting began in various places between the center of the Texas colonies and Matamoros, usually with poor results. Two of those battles, San Patricio and Refugio are covered in this latest episode of Wise About Texas.

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0:00.0	Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you very much for tuning in today to hear a little bit about some Texas history.
0:19.0	It's been a very eventful couple of weeks for me here at Wies about Texas. We've been doing a lot of speaking
0:26.2	engagements. I had the real pleasure and honor to speak at Washington on the Brazos at their
0:31.3	annual Texas Independence Day celebration.
0:33.7	The weather didn't cooperate.
0:36.3	We've talked before about the revolution in 1836 and how rainy that spring was.
0:41.6	Well, it rained on us at Washington on the
0:43.2	Brazos but we had a great turnout and we had a lot of fun celebrating Texas
0:46.8	Independence. I've been doing a lot of traveling recently spending a lot of time in
0:50.8	Austin I never failed to stop and do a little bit of historical research
0:56.7	every time I'm there and try to get some new ideas for the podcast, which I was very successful
1:02.4	in doing.
1:03.0	I took a very interesting trip last week to Larry McMurtry's bookstore in Archer City
1:11.0	and that was just a fascinating experience over 200,000 books in one place
1:16.2	Which is pretty much heaven to a history buff
1:19.2	The best part of the whole trip was a group of us walked into the store and there stood Larry McMurtry himself so we got to talk to him and was very pleasant and a very interesting trip got some great ideas for some new episodes and I'm excited about all the stuff that's coming up.
1:34.1	Getting lots of great feedback from the listeners. Thank you very much when you
1:38.6	get a minute and leave a review on iTunes and shoot me an email about what you'd like to hear about.
1:44.8	I had one gentleman approached me at Washington on the Brazos, a fan of the podcast, and
1:49.3	gave me a lot of great original material on his ancestor Thomas Rusk.
1:53.4	So we're going to get into some of that
1:55.2	and talk about Thomas Rusk in an upcoming episode.
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