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Fannin's Surrender at Goliad
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AFTER THE RUNAWAY SCRAPE MEXICAN GENERAL JOSE DE URREA CROSSED RIO GRANDE WITH SOME 550 TROOPS.ONMARCH 17 URREA WON THE BATTLE OF REFUGIO DEFEATING SOME OF FANNIN'S TROOPS.ON MARCH 18 URREA'S FORCES FOUGHT AGAINST FANNIN'S TROOPS,SO FANNIN LEFT HIS TROOPS AND FLED TO VICTORIA.
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ON THE DAY AFTER FANNIN FLED URREA'S FORCES SURROUNDED TEXAS TROOPS,AND HEADED TO VICTORIA .DURING THE BATTLE OF COLETO FANNIN WAS WOUNDED. THE NEXT MORNING WHEN URREA'S REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVED FANNIN SURRENDERED.MANY OF THE TEXAS REBELS WERE MARCHED TO GOLIAD TO BE EXCECUTED.ALTHOUGH URREA WANTED THEM AS SOLDIERS SANTA ANNA SAID "ANYONE WHO RAISED ARMS AGAINST MEXICO SHALL BE EXCECUTED".DURING THE GOLIAD MASSACRE JAMES WALKER FANNIN WAS KILLED.
JOSE DE URREA
BORN ON 1797 IN TUSCON,SONORA (NOW ARIZONA). HE BECAME A LIEUTENET IN 1816.HE FOUGHT IN JALISCO AND MICHOACAN.HE WAS KICKED OUT OF THE ARMY BUT REENTERED IN 1829.HE ALSO FOUGHT WITH SANTA ANNA AGAINST ISIDRO BARRADAS.REBELLED AGAINST THE MEXICAN GOVERMENT.HE FLED TO DURANGO.IN1839HE WAS SENT TO PEROTE PRISON.IN 1849 HE DIED.
JAMES WALKER FANNIN JR.
HE WAS BORN ON JANUARY,1,1804 IN GEORGIA.ON JULY 1819 HE ENTERED THE U.S. MILLITARY ACADEMY IN NOVEMBER 1821 THREE YEARS LATER HE DROPPED OUT.LATER ON HE MARRIED A WOMAN CALLED MINERVA FORT.IN 1834 HE MOVED TO VELASCO,TEXAS WITH HIS FAMILY.ON AUGUST 20,1835 HE WAS APPOINTED TO USE HIS WILL TO INFLUENCE THE CALLING OF CONSULATION.FANNIN AND JAMES BOWIE LED TEXAS FORCES IN TH BATTLE OF CONSEPCION.DIED IN 1836. FANNIN COUNTY NAMED IN HIS HONOR.
JOSE DE URREA