1836 newspaper TEXAS WAR of INDEPENDENCE Goliad Massacr
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Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction: /Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkm SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Newburyport Herald (RI) dated May 27, 1836. Inside page report on the FANNIN MASSACRE (also known as the GOLIAD MASSCRE) that took place during the TEXAS. James Walker Fannin, Jr. (January 1, 1804 – March 27, 1836) was a 19th-century U.S. military figure on the Texas Army and leader during the Texas Revolution of 1835–36. After being outnumbered and surrendering to Mexican forces at the Battle of Coleto Creek , Colonel Fannin and nearly all his 344 men were executed soon afterward at Goliad, Texas , under Santa Anna 's orders for all rebels to be executed. The Goliad Massacre was an execution of Republic of Texas soldiers and their commander, James Fannin , by Mexico, reluctantly carried out by General Jose de Urrea . The Mexicans, led by Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna , quickly routed and crushed the Texan volunteer army shortly before, and Texan Colonel James Fannin was captured and executed. The entire Texan force was killed except for twenty-eight men who feigned death and escaped. The massive number of Texan casualties throughout the Goliad Campaign and the "take-no-prisoners" attitude of the Mexican
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