1836 newspaper TEXAS WAR of INDEPENDENCE TX Revolution FANNIN MASSACE at GOLIAD

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1836 newspaper TEXAS WAR of INDEPENDENCE - TX Revolution FANNIN MASSACE at GOLIAD - inv # 3Q-109Please visit our EBAY STORE at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at auction:/Steve-Goldman-HISTORICAL-NEWSPAPERS_W0QQsspagenameZL2222QQtZkmSEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the National Inteligencer (Washington, DC) dated June 4, 1836. This newspaper contains prominent back page headlines and a long detailed (2 columns of text) news report of the GOLIAD MASSACRE of Texas Col James Fannin and his men by the Mexican Army at Goliad .The Goliad massacre was an event that occurred on March 27, 1836, during the Texas Revolution , in which nearly 500 prisoners of war from the army of the Republic of Texas were killed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad, Texas . Among those killed was commander James Fannin . The killing was carried out under orders from General and President of Mexico Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna . Despite the protests for clemency by General José de Urrea , the massacre was reluctantly carried out by Lt. Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla.After Santa Anna learned that a force of Texas rebels were heading toward Matamoros , he sent General Urrea to make his way north to Matamoros and then to march north along the coast of Texas to stop the Texians. Urrea arrived in Matamoros and worked to secure cooperation from the local inhabitants on January 31, 1836. Meanwhile, Sam Houston had persuaded all but 70 to 100 men and their leaders, Frank W. Johnson and James Grant , to give up on the expedition and to defend locations in Texas, principally Goliad . On February 12, 1836, Colonel James Fannin took most of the men to defend Presidio La Bahía at Goliad, which he renamed "Fort Defiance".On February 16, 1836, Urrea crossed the Rio Grande with 188 cavalry and 205 infantry. He recruited about 200 Tejano volunteers from the area, including some previously sympathetic to the Texians, to join him.At 3:00 a.m. on February 27, 1836, Urrea's advance patrol surprised Johnson and about 45 men, initiating the Battle of San Patricio , where Urrea's force killed 16 and took 24 prisoners. Johnson and four others escaped in the darkness and rejoined Fannin's command at Goliad where they retold a story, which they first told at a ranch where they had taken refuge after the escape, that all the prisoners had been executed. Urrea had sent 18 of the prisoners to Matamoros where they were sentenced to death but were later released. This news persuaded Fannin to abandon any further attempt to send relief to the Alamo or to try to secure badly needed supplies waiting at Matagorda but to prepare Presidio La Bahía at Goliad for defense against the advancing Mexican Army.On March 2, at the Battle of Agua Dulce , Grant was killed, as were about 20 other men under his command.On March 6, the Mexican force under Santa Anna stormed the Alamo and killed the garrison.On March 14, Colonel William Ward and 200 men, who had been sent to help Captain Amon B. King evacuate colonists at Refugio, were surrounded by Urrea's force. Although Ward and his men fled that night during a blinding rainstorm, the Mexicans caught up to part of Ward's force and killed 18 and captured 31.King and a group of men were executed on March 16 at Refugio , but some 15 to 18 prisoners were marched to Goliad to serve as blacksmiths or mechanics.After capturing one of Fannin's messengers with dispatches that told his plan to wait at Goliad but then retreat after King and Ward returned, Urrea ordered the execution of 30 prisoners he decided were mercenaries but freed over 20 others he determined to be Mexicans or colonists so he would not be hindered by taking prisoners along on his advance on Fannin's force.On March 19, Urrea had quickly advanced and surrounded 300 men of the Texian Army on the open prairie, near La Bahia (Goliad). The two-day Battle of Coleto ensued, with the Texians holding their own on the fi... read more

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