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Originally Posted by 392cobra
Santa Anna had all the Texians gathered on piled in the Plaza. At 5 PM,12 hours after it had started,Santa Anna set them to fire. The fire burnt for 2 days.
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Sadly, an even darker day lay ahead for the Texians. The massacre at Goliad revealed the sheer brutality of Santa Anna and his generals; easily outranking today's Al Qaeda. Given that these abominations against humanity happened on the grounds of places of worship built by peaceful settlers, it seems divine that the end would come so quickly in the tall grass on the quiet coastal plain at San Jacinto. Swiftly, out in the open, in clear daylight, in just a matter of minutes.