Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!

I knew about the Alamo, but I didn’t know the story about Goliad or that it was part of the phrase used during the Texas Revolution. A month after the Alamo occurred (Mexico’s President General Santa Anna killing all the Texas fighters at the Alamo), another battle was fought at Goliad. The Texas side was losing the battle and decided to surrender to the Mexican forces to become prisoners of war. General Santa Anna (who wasn’t in the battle) refused to accept this and sent instructions to kill all the prisoners. The Mexican forces marched 3 groups of the prisoners out to separate fields and executed over 300 people in this massacre. The next month the Texans under Sam Houston rallied and defeated General Santa Anna. Mexico forces retreated leaving Texas to become independent.

This monument is where most of the soldiers are buried.

Some soldiers were saved by the “Angel of Goliad”.

Presidio La Bahia or Fort Defiance also has a church.

I thought Pensacola had a lot of flags over time (5), but there have been 9 different flags that flew over this fort over the years (3 different Texas revolutions, Texas, France, Spain, Mexico, US, Confederate).