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    Goliad (/ˈɡoʊliæd/ GOH-lee-ad) is a city and the county seat of Goliad County, Texas, United States. It is known for the 1836 Goliad massacre during the...
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    97°22′59″W / 28.6476°N 97.3830°W / 28.6476; -97.3830 The Goliad massacre was an event of the Texas Revolution that occurred on March 27, 1836, following...
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    The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican...
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    Goliad County (/ˈɡoʊliæd/ GOH-lee-ad) is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population is 7,012. Its county seat is...
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  • The 1902 Goliad, Texas, tornado was a F4 tornado that struck the town of Goliad, Texas, on Sunday, May 18, 1902. A total of 114 people died, 250 were...
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    of Goliad, Texas, United States. The current location dates to 1747. During the Texas Revolution, the presidio was the site of the Battle of Goliad in...
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    James Fannin (category People who died in the Goliad Massacre)
    Fannin and his fellow prisoners of war were massacred soon afterward at Goliad, Texas, under Antonio López de Santa Anna's orders. He was memorialized in...
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  • and of October. The first Texas Mile event was in October 2003 at the Goliad County Industrial Airpark, near Goliad, Texas, with 35 participants and relatively...
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    The Goliad Campaign was the 1836 Mexican offensive to retake the Texas Gulf Coast during the Texas Revolution. Mexican troops under the command of General...
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    San Antonio River (category Rivers of Goliad County, Texas)
    Bexar, Goliad, Karnes, Refugio, and Wilson. The first documented record of the river was from Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca on his explorations of Texas in 1535...
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    Goliad State Park and Historic Site is a 188.3 acres (76 ha) state park located along the San Antonio River on the southern edge of Goliad, Texas. It...
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  • Texas coastline, defeating Mexican troops at Goliad and at Fort Lipantitlán. The majority of the Texan troops followed General Sam Houston where they...
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    Bum Phillips (category People from Goliad, Texas)
    Oilers radio broadcasts. He subsequently retired to his horse ranch in Goliad, Texas. His son, Wade Phillips, has also held assistant and head coaching jobs...
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    King Fisher (category People from Goliad, Texas)
    the death of his stepmother Minerva, the Fishers moved to Goliad, west of Victoria, Texas, where they were joined by his paternal grandmother, who helped...
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  • Burr H. Duval (category People who died in the Goliad Massacre)
    during the Texas Revolution. He and hundreds of others surrendered to the Mexican army at Goliad, Texas, only to be executed in the Goliad Massacre. Burr...
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    Mission Nuestra Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga (category Museums in Goliad County, Texas)
    encroachment from France. The third and final location near Goliad, Texas is maintained now as part of Goliad State Park and Historic Site Established on 1722 on...
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    Beeville and Goliad, Texas Entrance sign at Beeville, Texas The city's terrain ranges from flat to gently rolling slopes, set in the South Texas Brush Country...
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    Ignacio Zaragoza (category People from Goliad, Texas)
    the Mexican province of Texas, in the village of Bahía del Espíritu Santo, in the state of Coahuila y Tejas (now Goliad, Texas, in the United States) on...
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  • province. . General Jose Urrea marched half of the troops up the Texas coast in the Goliad campaign, while Santa Anna led the rest of the troops to San Antonio...
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  • Battalion at Refugio, Texas and he was elected lieutenant colonel. On February 12, the Georgia Battalion traveled with Fannin to Goliad. It was here at Fort...
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  • Lenny Von Dohlen (category People from Goliad, Texas)
    on December 22, 1958, in Augusta, Georgia, and raised in Goliad, a small town in south Texas. He had German ancestry from his paternal grandfather and...
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    Handbook of Texas (online ed.). Texas State Historical Association. Huson, Hobart (1974). Captain Phillip Dimmitt's Commandancy of Goliad, 1835–1836:...
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    sometimes called the "first Republic of Texas", which encompassed land from San Antonio to Nacogdoches and Goliad. 1819–1821 One of the flags of the Long...
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  • known as the "Angel of Goliad," for saving the lives of Texas prisoners of war in the Goliad massacre and at Copano and Victoria, Texas, by interceding on...
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    Columbus, Texas, not far from where Miss Kollman had been murdered near her family's home. Goliad Hanging Tree: Large oak tree in Goliad, Texas. For 24...
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    in the Goliad Massacre along with Texian Colonel James Walker Fannin by Mexican troops in Goliad near the Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution...
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    Mexican General José de Urrea led a contingent of troops on the Goliad Campaign up the Texas coast, defeating all Texian troops in his path and executing...
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    José de Urrea (category People of Mexican side in the Texas Revolution)
    the Texas Revolution. Urrea's forces were never defeated in battle during the Texas Revolution. His most notable success was that of the Goliad Campaign...
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    walked until he reached the Rio Grande. However, as Gregorio arrived in Goliad, Texas, he met with his friend named "El Teco". However, El Teco betrayed him...
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    2009 estimate placed the population at 115,396). Calhoun Goliad Victoria Incorporated places Goliad Point Comfort Port Lavaca Seadrift Victoria (Principal...
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