NGC- Remember Goliad

[toddhaven]

The Goliad Massacre, set in the town of Goliad on March 27, 1836, was an execution of Republic of Texas soldier-prisoners and their commander, James Fannin...
The Mexicans took the Texians back to Goliad, where they were held as prisoners at Fort Defiance (Presidio La Bahia). The Texans thought they would likely be set free in a few weeks. General Urrea departed Goliad, leaving command to Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla. Urrea wrote to Santa Anna to ask for clemency for the Texians. Under a decree passed by the Mexican Congress on December 30 of the previous year, armed foreigners taken in combat were to be treated as pirates and executed. Urrea wrote in his diary that he "...wished to elude these orders as far as possible without compromising my personal responsibility." Santa Anna responded to this entreaty by repeatedly ordering Urrea to comply with the law and execute the prisoners. He also had a similar order sent directly to the "Officer Commanding the Post of Goliad". This order was received by Portilla on March 26, who decided it was his duty to comply despite receiving a countermanding order from Urrea later that same day.[1][5]

The next day, Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, Colonel Portilla had the 303 Texians marched out of Fort Defiance into three columns on the Bexar Road, San Patricio Road, and the Victoria Road, between two rows of Mexican soldiers; they were shot point-blank, and any survivors were clubbed and knifed to death.

Forty Texians were unable to walk. Thirty nine were killed inside the fort, under the direction of Captain Carolino Huerta of the Tres Villas battalion, with Colonel Garay saving one. Colonel Fannin was the last to be executed, after seeing his men executed. Age 32, he was taken by Mexican soldiers to the courtyard in front of the chapel, blindfolded, and seated in a chair (due to his leg wound from the battle). He made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body along with the other Texians who died that day.

Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad, and always Remember San Jacinto.

[nunzio]

The Goliad Massacre, set in the town of Goliad on March 27, 1836, was an execution of Republic of Texas soldier-prisoners and their commander, James Fannin...
The Mexicans took the Texians back to Goliad, where they were held as prisoners at Fort Defiance (Presidio La Bahia). The Texans thought they would likely be set free in a few weeks. General Urrea departed Goliad, leaving command to Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla. Urrea wrote to Santa Anna to ask for clemency for the Texians. Under a decree passed by the Mexican Congress on December 30 of the previous year, armed foreigners taken in combat were to be treated as pirates and executed. Urrea wrote in his diary that he "...wished to elude these orders as far as possible without compromising my personal responsibility." Santa Anna responded to this entreaty by repeatedly ordering Urrea to comply with the law and execute the prisoners. He also had a similar order sent directly to the "Officer Commanding the Post of Goliad". This order was received by Portilla on March 26, who decided it was his duty to comply despite receiving a countermanding order from Urrea later that same day.[1][5]

The next day, Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836, Colonel Portilla had the 303 Texians marched out of Fort Defiance into three columns on the Bexar Road, San Patricio Road, and the Victoria Road, between two rows of Mexican soldiers; they were shot point-blank, and any survivors were clubbed and knifed to death.

Forty Texians were unable to walk. Thirty nine were killed inside the fort, under the direction of Captain Carolino Huerta of the Tres Villas battalion, with Colonel Garay saving one. Colonel Fannin was the last to be executed, after seeing his men executed. Age 32, he was taken by Mexican soldiers to the courtyard in front of the chapel, blindfolded, and seated in a chair (due to his leg wound from the battle). He made three requests: he asked for his personal possessions to be sent to his family, to be shot in his heart and not his face, and to be given a Christian burial. The soldiers took his belongings, shot him in the face, and burned Fannin's body along with the other Texians who died that day.




Men like these are Far and Few between.....Alan

[cruzziguzzi]

Men like these are Far and Few between.....Alan

Not so few and far between are these types of men as are the goals, situations and opportunities worthy of their efforts and sacrifices.



And don't bother with the "Huh  ???" ya old weirdo, you know well what I mean or more's the pity.

[Bill Hagan]

It is worthy of commemoration ... even here, a long way from Texas.

So, I'm getting one of these:

http://www.united-states-flag.com/come-and-take-it-printed-polyester-3x5-flag-gonzales-flag.html

Bill

[lucydad]

Todd,

Remembered, indeed.  You don't want to get me started.

[rocker59]

Remember Todd.

This weekend, The History Channel will be having its "Texas Rising" marathon.

It's a helluva series with some great actors.  

If you watch it, remember The Alamo, remember Goliad, remember San Jacinto, and always remember Todd.

Memorial Day 9/8C

http://www.history.com/shows/texas-rising

http://www.history.com/shows/texas-rising/videos

[SmithSwede]

Thank you for bumping that.

[Bill Hagan]

Thank you for bumping that.

Yes, indeed.

Loved Todd's tag line: "Wherever I go, I will always have one foot in Texas."   ;D

And, as do so many of us blessed to have known that great fellow, sure do miss him.

I just poured a bit of bourbon and as will toast his memory ... and those of those brave Texans he revered.

Bill

[davedel44]

God bless Todd and God bless Texas!

Dave
Galveston

[John A]

 I am proud to be in a union of states with Texans!