Fannin Battleground State Historic Site

An expository exhibit, structure, and outing location get on the 14 acre premises. The site is off freeway 59 in between Goliad and Victoria on FM 2506 on the south side of the small community of Fannin. The park is open daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission is cost-free.

Fannin believed he and his men would certainly be dealt with as detainees of battle and paroled back to the United States, yet Urrea might not assure this as Santa Anna had standing orders that all that take up arms against the Mexican government were to be carried out as pirates. The Texians were marched back to La Bahia and shot on March 27 in what is now called the Goliad Massacre.

Urrea’s males caught them less than a mile from the loved one security of a tree line on high ground and bordered the Texians in a tiny spot of low, dry prairie. As Fannin’s men set up a defensive square, Urrea sent word back to newly-captured Goliad for supports and weapons.

In the dark days after the autumn of the Alamo, on March 6, 1836, James Fannin, leader of the Texian garrison at Goliad, was iced up with uncertainty. He had fortified the objective grounds of La Bahia, however recent beats at Refugio and San Antonio made the ft at risk to the advancing Mexican militaries under General Jose de Urrea and Santa Anna. By the time word originated from General Sam Houston, purchasing the Texians under Fannin to drop back to Victoria, General Urrea’s soldiers were currently approaching Goliad. Fannin ultimately got a hideaway, and on the early morning of March 19, he and his 300 men deserted the fort. They brought 1,000 firearms and 9 cannons, but extremely little food or water as they headed eastern towards Victoria.

A little team of detainees were spared or run away the execution. From eyewitness accounts, the website of the Fight of Coleto Creek was marked with a stack of rocks after the loss of the Mexican army at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. In 1894, a regional farmer named Sol Parks placed a cotton gin screw at the website of Fannin’s abandonment, which still stands near the entrance to the park today.

In the dark days after the loss of the Alamo, on March 6, 1836, James Fannin, leader of the Texian fort at Goliad, was iced up with indecisiveness. By the time word came from General Sam Houston, purchasing the Texians under Fannin to fall back to Victoria, General Urrea’s troops were already coming close to Goliad. As Fannin’s men set up a protective square, Urrea sent word back to newly-captured Goliad for supports and artillery.