Friday, March 27, 2020

On this day in 1836,

Santa Ana Executes 417 Texan Revolutionaries At Gilead After The Slaughter At The Alamo

Colonel James Fannin, the commander of the captured Texian Army at Goliad, asked for humane treatment for himself and his Texian soldiers but his request was denied. Fannin was tortured and then shot in the head, and his men brutally murdered

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