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1		-	H.R. No. 104
	1	+	89R11725 HMR-D
	2	+	By: Cain H.R. No. 104
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6	7		R E S O L U T I O N
7	8		WHEREAS, April 21, 2025, marks the 189th anniversary of the
8	9		Battle of San Jacinto, the culminating engagement of the Texas
9	10		Revolution; and
10	11		WHEREAS, After a decade of sporadic clashes between Texas
11	12		colonists and Mexican officials, the movement toward rebellion
12	13		picked up increasing momentum in the fall of 1835; Antonio Lopez de
13	14		Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, having abrogated the
14	15		federalist Constitution of 1824 and assumed autocratic power,
15	16		decided to reestablish troops at posts in Texas that had been
16	17		evacuated in 1832; as part of that plan, General Martin Perfecto de
17	18		Cos arrived in San Antonio with a battalion of infantry on
18	19		October 9, 1835; an army of Texas volunteers quickly moved to lay
19	20		siege to San Antonio, in what became the first major campaign of the
20	21		revolution; General Cos finally capitulated on December 9, 1835,
21	22		and he and his troops were allowed to withdraw to Mexico; and
22	23		WHEREAS, Determined to suppress the rebellion, General Santa
23	24		Anna led an army of some 6,000 men into Texas in early 1836,
24	25		crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Eagle Pass; at the same
25	26		time, a second Mexican force, under General Jose de Urrea, advanced
26	27		into Texas farther to the east; while General Santa Anna besieged
27	28		some 180 Texas troops at the Alamo, a convention of Texas delegates
28	29		convened at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836, and on
29	30		March 2 adopted a declaration of independence; two days later, the
30	31		convention appointed Sam Houston, one of the delegates, to take
31	32		command of the Texas army; and
32	33		WHEREAS, General Houston left immediately to join Texas
33	34		troops gathered in Gonzales; when he reached that town, he learned
34	35		that the Alamo had fallen and that a division of General Santa
35	36		Anna's army was marching in his direction; given that the effective
36	37		strength of his own force numbered only 374, as well as the fact
37	38		that his men were poorly provisioned and largely untrained, he
38	39		began a withdrawal toward the northeast, playing for time; and
39	40		WHEREAS, Elsewhere, the Texans were meeting with successive
40	41		defeats; the most shocking of those was the loss of James W. Fannin
41	42		and some 400 men, who were captured and then executed on March 27 in
42	43		what became known as the Goliad Massacre; and
43	44		WHEREAS, In April, General Houston halted his retreat at the
44	45		Brazos River and spent two weeks drilling his troops; a short time
45	46		later, on April 20, calculating that the time for battle had come at
46	47		last, he staked out a position near the confluence of Buffalo Bayou
47	48		and the San Jacinto River; later that same day, General Santa Anna
48	49		and his army caught up to the Texans and established their own
49	50		position; the following morning, General Cos arrived with an
50	51		additional body of soldiers, bringing the total strength of the
51	52		Mexican army to perhaps 1,200 or more, as opposed to the
52	53		approximately 900 men under General Houston's command; and
53	54		WHEREAS, Confident that he had the Texans on the defensive,
54	55		General Santa Anna planned to launch an attack on April 22; on the
55	56		afternoon of the 21st, however, while the Mexican army was resting,
56	57		General Houston drew up his troops in battle formation; General
57	58		Santa Anna had apparently posted no sentries, and a swell of land
58	59		between the two armies hid the Texans from view; and
59	60		WHEREAS, At the given signal, the Texans advanced across a
60	61		mile of open prairie toward the Mexican army, becoming visible only
61	62		when they reached within about 200 yards of the Mexican camp; crying
62	63		"Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad," they took General Santa
63	64		Anna's troops completely by surprise; the battle lasted 18 minutes,
64	65		according to Sam Houston's report, but the killing continued for
65	66		about an hour afterward; in the end, Texan losses stood at nine dead
66	67		and mortally wounded, with 630 Mexican soldiers killed and 730
67	68		taken prisoner; General Santa Anna himself was captured the
68	69		following day; and
69	70		WHEREAS, With the Battle of San Jacinto, the long colonial
70	71		period of Texas history, stretching as far back as the 16th century,
71	72		came to an end; Texas would remain an independent republic for nine
72	73		years before joining the Union in 1845; and
73	74		WHEREAS, The Battle of San Jacinto dramatically changed the
74	75		course of Texas history, and the story of how an outnumbered army of
75	76		volunteers ultimately prevailed against General Santa Anna and his
76	77		troops continues to inspire a special sense of pride among Texans to
77	78		this day; now, therefore, be it
78	79		RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas
79	80		Legislature hereby commemorate the 189th anniversary of the Battle
80	81		of San Jacinto and pay tribute to all those whose courage and
81	82		tenacity brought ultimate victory to the Texan cause.
82		-	Cain
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84		-	Speaker of the House
85		-	I certify that H.R. No. 104 was adopted by the House on March
86		-	13, 2025, by a non-record vote.
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88		-	Chief Clerk of the House