Texas History for Teachers – The Goliad Massacre

Take a tour of Presidio La Bahia and the Fannin Battleground State Historic Site, where almost 400 Texas soldiers lost their lives during the Texas Revolution in what became known as the Goliad Massacre.

0:00 Introduction
0:54 Early Clashes
1:27 Strategic Importance of Goliad
2:15 James Fannin's Arrival and Plans
3:13 Santa Anna's Two-Pronged Attack
4:47 Fannin's Failed Relief Effort
6:16 Preparation for Battle
08:46 Battle of Coleto Creek
11:00 Fannin's Surrender and Aftermath
11:40 Presidio Imprisonment
12:24 The Goliad Massacre
15:33 Panic. The Runaway Scrape
16:07 Unanticipated Effects and Legacy
16:35 Memorial Monument

A version of this video with an American Sign Langugage (ASL) interpreter can be found here (   • Texas History for Teachers – The Goli...  ). Closed captioning is available in English or Spanish.

Want more? We've created a series of lesson materials about the Texas Revolution including a Virtual Field Trip to Goliad, Texas, lists of primary sources, and other video lessons available for free at https://education.texashistory.unt.ed....

The Texas History for Teachers (TX4T) project provides Texas social studies teachers access to evidence-based historical content and best-practices pedagogical resources for teaching Texas history. The long-term TX4T vision is to produce a full, free Texas history curriculum that combines the very best of historical knowledge, accessibility. and educational pedagogy, with all of our content mapped to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards for teaching 4th and 7th grade social studies.

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