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The San Jacinto Monument — the world's tallest war memorial at over 567 feet — is set to undergo a "transformative" $142 ...
Today is San Jacinto Day. On April 21, 1836, in a prairie next to what’s now the Houston Ship Channel, Sam Houston’s troops won the battle that seceded Texas from Mexico. But strangely, ...
History aficionados will be intrigued by the San Jacinto Battleground. The State Historic Site is where an important, if not the most important, battle for Texas' independence took place in 1836.
LA PORTE, Texas — Battleship Texas will soon be moving from the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site. The historic ship is tentatively scheduled to be towed to the Gulf Copper Shipyard ...
Correspondence of the New-Orleans Picayune. BATTLE-GROUND, SAN JACINTO, Saturday, April 21, 1860. All immense gathering of the friends of [???]AM HOUSTON, the hero of San Jacinto, was held at the ...
“This expansion marks a transformative moment for the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield,” Amy Rogers, executive director of ...
The battlefield lay, as it does now, on a marshy peninsula where Buffalo Bayou intersected the San Jacinto River. The Houston ship channel, neither as grand nor as pestilential as it would later ...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. -- Mail advices have reached the War Department in regard to the crushing defeat administered by Wheaton's brigade to the insurgents near San Jacinto early in November ...
presented by the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association and the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, will take place on April 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Events include exhibits of ...
HOUSTON, TX / ACCESSWIRE / April 14, 2023 / The San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association and the Texas Historical Commission are proud to announce the 2023 San Jacinto Day Celebration on ...