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1	1	89R11726 HMR-D
2	2	By: Cain H.R. No. 105
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7	7	R E S O L U T I O N
8	8	WHEREAS, April 21, 2026, marks the 190th anniversary of the
9	9	Battle of San Jacinto, the culminating engagement of the Texas
10	10	Revolution; and
11	11	WHEREAS, After a decade of sporadic clashes between Texas
12	12	colonists and Mexican officials, the movement toward rebellion
13	13	picked up increasing momentum in the fall of 1835; Antonio Lopez de
14	14	Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, having abrogated the
15	15	federalist Constitution of 1824 and assumed autocratic power,
16	16	decided to reestablish troops at posts in Texas that had been
17	17	evacuated in 1832; as part of that plan, General Martin Perfecto de
18	18	Cos arrived in San Antonio with a battalion of infantry on
19	19	October 9, 1835; an army of Texas volunteers quickly moved to lay
20	20	siege to San Antonio, in what became the first major campaign of the
21	21	revolution; General Cos finally capitulated on December 9, 1835,
22	22	and he and his troops were allowed to withdraw to Mexico; and
23	23	WHEREAS, Determined to suppress the rebellion, General Santa
24	24	Anna led an army of some 6,000 men into Texas in early 1836,
25	25	crossing the Rio Grande near present-day Eagle Pass; at the same
26	26	time, a second Mexican force, under General Jose de Urrea, advanced
27	27	into Texas farther to the east; while General Santa Anna besieged
28	28	some 180 Texas troops at the Alamo, a convention of Texas delegates
29	29	convened at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836, and on
30	30	March 2 adopted a declaration of independence; two days later, the
31	31	convention appointed Sam Houston, one of the delegates, to take
32	32	command of the Texas army; and
33	33	WHEREAS, General Houston left immediately to join Texas
34	34	troops gathered in Gonzales; when he reached that town, he learned
35	35	that the Alamo had fallen and that a division of General Santa
36	36	Anna's army was marching in his direction; given that the effective
37	37	strength of his own force numbered only 374, as well as the fact
38	38	that his men were poorly provisioned and largely untrained, he
39	39	began a withdrawal toward the northeast, playing for time; and
40	40	WHEREAS, Elsewhere, the Texans were meeting with successive
41	41	defeats; the most shocking of those was the loss of James W. Fannin
42	42	and some 400 men, who were captured and then executed on March 27 in
43	43	what became known as the Goliad Massacre; and
44	44	WHEREAS, In April, General Houston halted his retreat at the
45	45	Brazos River and spent two weeks drilling his troops; a short time
46	46	later, on April 20, calculating that the time for battle had come at
47	47	last, he staked out a position near the confluence of Buffalo Bayou
48	48	and the San Jacinto River; later that same day, General Santa Anna
49	49	and his army caught up to the Texans and established their own
50	50	position; the following morning, General Cos arrived with an
51	51	additional body of soldiers, bringing the total strength of the
52	52	Mexican army to perhaps 1,200 or more, as opposed to the
53	53	approximately 900 men under General Houston's command; and
54	54	WHEREAS, Confident that he had the Texans on the defensive,
55	55	General Santa Anna planned to launch an attack on April 22; on the
56	56	afternoon of the 21st, however, while the Mexican army was resting,
57	57	General Houston drew up his troops in battle formation; General
58	58	Santa Anna had apparently posted no sentries, and a swell of land
59	59	between the two armies hid the Texans from view; and
60	60	WHEREAS, At the given signal, the Texans advanced across a
61	61	mile of open prairie toward the Mexican army, becoming visible only
62	62	when they reached within about 200 yards of the Mexican camp; crying
63	63	"Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad," they took General Santa
64	64	Anna's troops completely by surprise; the battle lasted 18 minutes,
65	65	according to Sam Houston's report, but the killing continued for
66	66	about an hour afterward; in the end, Texan losses stood at nine dead
67	67	and mortally wounded, with 630 Mexican soldiers killed and 730
68	68	taken prisoner; General Santa Anna himself was captured the
69	69	following day; and
70	70	WHEREAS, With the Battle of San Jacinto, the long colonial
71	71	period of Texas history, stretching as far back as the 16th century,
72	72	came to an end; Texas would remain an independent republic for nine
73	73	years before joining the Union in 1845; and
74	74	WHEREAS, The Battle of San Jacinto dramatically changed the
75	75	course of Texas history, and the story of how an outnumbered army of
76	76	volunteers ultimately prevailed against General Santa Anna and his
77	77	troops continues to inspire a special sense of pride among Texans to
78	78	this day; now, therefore, be it
79	79	RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas
80	80	Legislature hereby commemorate the 190th anniversary of the Battle
81	81	of San Jacinto and pay tribute to all those whose courage and
82	82	tenacity brought ultimate victory to the Texan cause.