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Remember Goliad!: A History of La Bahía (Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series) by Craig H. Roell is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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When Sam Houston's revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence for Texas, their battle cry was'Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!'Everyone knows about the Alamo, but far fewer know about the stirring events at Goliad. Craig Roell's lively new study of Goliad brings to life this most important Texas community. Though its population has never exceeded two thousand, Goliad has been an important site of Texas history since Spanish colonial days. It is the largest town in the county of the same name, which was one of the original counties of Texas created in 1836 and was named for the vast territory that was governed as the municipality of Goliad under the Republic of Mexico.Goliad offers one of the most complete examples of early Texas courthouse squares, and has been listed as a historic preservation district on the National Register. But the sites that forever etched this sleepy Texas town into historical consciousness are those made infamous by two of the most controversial episodes of the entire Texas Revolution—the Fannin Battleground at nearby Coleto Creek, and Nuestra Señora de Loreto (popularly called Presidio La Bahía), site of the Goliad Ma
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- Author
- Craig H. Roell
- Publisher
- Austin: Texas State Historical Association
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781625110152
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (5 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13