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When the battle of San Jacinto ended, 7 Americans and 134 Filipinos were killed, many of those casualties to the single Gatling gun the American Soldiers carried and put into action.
Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, the San Jacinto Day Dinner gathered history buffs, ...
Correspondence of the New-Orleans Picayune. BATTLE-GROUND, SAN JACINTO, Saturday, April 21, 1860.
The Battle of San Jacinto, its site marked by a soaring obelisk and a battleground now undergoing restoration, will be commemorated Saturday in ceremony, discussed and debated during an academic ...
San Jacinto, as the monument insistently reminds us, was a triumph: the sixteenth most important battle in history, according to one historian. In those few critical minutes the winner took all.
Reenactments: The reenactment of the Battle of San Jacinto and the surrender of General Santa Anna will be held twice during the day, once at 11 a.m. and again at 3 p.m.
The 1901 oil on canvas, 5-by-7-foot painting of the Battle of San Jacinto by Henry McArdle, was found last year by his great-great-grandson Jon Buell in his grandparents' attic in Weston, W. Virginia.
San Jacinto Celebration. This year's event promises to be a fun-filled day of history and reenactments, celebrating the 187th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto.
The Battle of Flowers Parade began in 1891 as one of the few parades in the United States produced entirely by women. Today the parade is known as the founding event of Fiesta San Antonio.
The monument was built near the site of the battle that saw Texas win its independence from Mexico in 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto. It was largely the vision of Houston entrepreneur Jesse Jones ...