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Remember Goliad!

Posted on March 28, 2010 | Comments Off on Remember Goliad!

It’s been eulogized, memorialized, fictionalized and historified (sic) but the Goliad massacre, 174 years ago today, still resonates for those in the know. For those who aren’t, the folks at Presidio La Bahia have done some restoration and gotten a little new publicity in hopes of drawing more visitors. Not that they’re ever likely to match the tourist trade at the Alamo, but it’s worth a try. And worth a visit. It’s quiet out there, the silence broken only by the sounds of birds, fitting for the resting place of 342 Texas patriots massacred by order of a mad Mexican general.

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Happy Texas Independence Day

Posted on March 2, 2010 | Comments Off on Happy Texas Independence Day

It’s happy now. Wasn’t on this day in 1836. The Alamo was under siege by the Mexican thousands and the Texians, despite today’s issuance of their proclamation of Texas independence, were about as disorganized and fractious as you might expect a fledgling government and its ad hoc military to be.

Four days from now, with the fall of the Alamo, and not long afterward with the horrific massacre at Goliad, the prospect of hanging would fix all their minds remarkably on their country-making goals. The victory at San Jacinto would follow and Texas would be a newly independent Republic.

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Slaughter at Goliad

Posted on May 9, 2008 | Comments Off on Slaughter at Goliad

Here’s a book I want to read: "Slaughter at Goliad: The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers." JD at Brazosmouth says it breaks no new ground on the 1836 travesty but still is a good ‘un. We drive through Goliad, and past the 1936 1938 memorial (also their burying ground) to Fannin and his murdered men, every year on the way to the beach and back again. Sometimes we stop and read the historical marker. The atrocity is not well known outside of Texas, and, for that matter, not even inside Texas these days, but this book may help remedy that. I hope so. They deserve to be remembered.

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Tornadoes

Posted on March 6, 2008 | Comments Off on Tornadoes

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Kid clerk at the hardware store got my attention a while ago when he said there was a tornado down around Goliad that the TV said was headed this way, along with a storm bringing freezing rain. Winter’s last gasp, I guess. As for the tornado, I doubt it. We are under a severe thunderstorm alert, but mainly to the east and southeast of the rancho. The last time a tornado hit in Austin was eighty-six years ago–May 4, 1922, pictured above–and, while it killed thirteen and injured forty-four, it didn’t do much damage as it wasn’t on the ground for long. 

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