To get you caught up, San Jacinto Day comes around every April 21 to commemorate Gen. Sam Houston’s victory over Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, which was the las ...

and several maps of the historic San Jacinto Battlefield, as it was on the day of the battle. Houston […] An important exhibit of historic Texas maps has opened at the San Jacinto Museum of ...

History aficionados will be intrigued by the San Jacinto Battleground. The State Historic Site is where an important, if not the most important, battle for Texas' independence took place in 1836.

HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / April 14, 2023 / The San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association and the Texas Historical Commission are proud to announce the 2023 San Jacinto Day Celebration on ...

presented by the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association and the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, will take place on April 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Events include exhibits of ...

Today is San Jacinto Day. On April 21, 1836, in a prairie next to what’s now the Houston Ship Channel, Sam Houston’s troops won the battle that seceded Texas from Mexico. But strangely, ...

The battlefield lay, as it does now, on a marshy peninsula where Buffalo Bayou intersected the San Jacinto River. The Houston ship channel, neither as grand nor as pestilential as it would later ...

It is a smaller version of McArdle's famed 8-by-14-foot painting, The Battle of San Jacinto, which hangs in ... During the Civil War, McArdle made maps for the Confederate Navy and served on ...