The biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place
in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813,
twenty-three years before the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and San
Jacinto. Estimates of up to 1,000 American and Mexican republicans
were killed or executed in the last major encounter of Spanish
forces in Texas. Spaniards called it the battle of "El Encinal de
Medina." In American history it is known as the Gutierrez-Magee
Expedition or as the "First Texas Revolution." The gruesome battle
halted and destroyed the American filibustering expedition that had
crossed into Texas from Louisiana a year earlier. Texas
independence would wait for another generation. This book was
edited and annotated by noted author and historian Robert Thonhoff
from a manuscript written by Ted Schwarz just before his death in
1977. A prize-winning author for this and other books, Thonhoff is
a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, the oldest
learned society in Texas
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