John Wilkes Booth's father – developed a love for Texas after getting to know Sam Houston personally from his early days as a ...

It is the site of a famous battle during the Texas revolution in 1836. During the battle ... as doing so would have been an act of war. Eventually, the State of Texas won its independence ...

One of the most notorious incidents of the Texas Revolution was the Goliad “Massacre,” the Santa Anna-ordered execution of ...

Present at Goliad on that day was Francita Alavez, who had accompanied Mexican Captain Telesforo Alavez to Texas. Historians have been unable to discover anything about Francita before her appearance ...

Author of the award-winning Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (University of Texas ... It forcefully drove home that the war for independence from Mexico ...