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[Illustration: THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO]
THE BATTLE OF
SAN JACINTO
_and the_
SAN JACINTO CAMPAIGN
[Illustration: Flags]
by
L. W. Kemp and Ed Kilman
COPYRIGHT, 1947
by
L. W. KEMP and ED KILMAN
Second Printing
Printed in the United States of America
The Webb Printing Co., Inc., Houston
The Battle of San Jacinto
_and the_
San Jacinto Campaign
FOREWORD
San Jacinto, birthplace of Texas liberty!... San Jacinto, one of the
world's decisive battles!... San Jacinto, where, with cries of "Remember
the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Sam Houston and his ragged band of 910
pioneers routed Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, President and Dictator of
Mexico and self-styled "Napoleon of the West," with his proud army, and
changed the map of North America!
Here is a story that has thrilled Texans for more than a century ... a
story of desperate valor and high adventure; of grim hardship, tragedy
and romance ... the story of the epochal battle that established the
independent Lone Star Republic, on April 21, 1836, and indelibly
inscribed the names of Texas patriots on history's scroll of American
immortals.
The actual battle of San Jacinto lasted less than twenty minutes, but it
was in the making for six years. It had its prelude in the oppressive
Mexican edict of April 6, 1830, prohibiting further emigration of
Anglo-Americans from the United States to Texas; in the disturbance at
Anahuac and in the battle of Velasco, in 1832; in the imprisonment of
Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," in Mexico in 1834.
Immediate preliminaries were the skirmish over a cannon at Gonzales, the
capture of Goliad, the "Grass Fight," and the siege and capture of San
Antonio ... all in 1835. The Texas Declaration of Independence at
Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 2, 1836, officially signalized the
revolution.