Howdy and welcome to Wies About Texas, the Texas History Podcast, this is your host, Ken Wies.

Thank you for tuning in today for little Texas history.

Today we're going to continue the series I've been doing, visiting various sites that were important in the

Texas Revolution and interviewing the directors of these historic sites to get a feel for what

you can see if you want to go explore some of the places where important

pieces of the Texas Revolution occurred. And today, the last episode we did was the Fanon

battleground. Well, after Fanon lost that battle he and his men

were marched back to Presidio Labahia where they had been holed up and they were

eventually almost all of them executed on the orders of General Santa Ana.

But the Presidio's history goes way back. It was built in 1749 and it's got it's a traditional Spanish percidio much of the

original construction is still there some of it has been redone by necessity of course. It's hundreds of

years old. The church was built that's within the Presidio walls was built in

1749. Has been a church since that time and continues to serve as a church

for the Diocese of Victoria. So I got to sit down with Scott McMahon, the director of the Presidio, and talk about the history of the place

and of course the events that occurred during the Texas Revolution.

Now a word about the audio. We conducted this interview. The Presidio is closed to the public during this

2020 coronavirus pandemic. Hopefully that will change shortly this episode's being released in late

April 2020 and we all hope that that changes and that it gets to open back up so

it was just he and I at the Presidio and we did the interview in the 1749 church.

And so the volume might be a little low and there might sound like there's a little echo and but I couldn't pass up the chance to spend some time in that hundreds

your hundreds of years old place and as a matter of fact most of the men most of the fanon's troops

were held and when they were being held in the Presidio were held in that very

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