San Jacinto: 18-minute battle that changed Texas forever

After weeks of humiliating retreat, after trying to absorb the shocking news of the Alamo massacre and the slaughter of 300 men at Goliad (on Palm Sunday), the ragtag army of Texans, totaling about 900 men, was frustrated, angry (at Houston) and seething. At last they would face the foe intent on either killing or driving out every American colonist in the newly declared independent republic. On this field, on this spring afternoon, the fate of the place known as Texas would be determined.

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