‘Left out of textbooks’: San Antonio remembers anniversary of deadliest battle in Texas history

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‘Left out of textbooks’: San Antonio remembers anniversary of deadliest battle in Texas history
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At least a dozen sites have been suggested as the site of the Battle of Medina, including this field near Old Pleasanton Road south of San Antonio.A short-lived republic broke away from Spain in April 1813, with an emerald green flag as its symbol. Local Tejanos, Anglos and Indigenous men made up a rebel force, known as the Republican Army of the North, and defeated Spanish royalists in the Battle of Rosillo on March 29, 1813.

The weeks that followed were horrific. Bodies of the dead rebels were left to decompose on the battlefield. The women and children in town were treated brutally, and any men suspected of aiding the rebels were executed. “Without the Battle of Medina, the 1836 revolution would’ve been absolutely different,” Gonzales said.

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