The battle was waged in present-day Harris County, on rolling plains along the San Jacinto River southwest of Houston on April 21, 1836. It lasted all of about 20 minutes and left 630 Mexican ...

It’s a map of the San Jacinto Battlefield hand drawn many years after the battle by someone who was there in 1836. “It was a man, James Washington Winters, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.