GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.412730000000
Longitude: -98.416476000000
Longitude: -98.416476000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
September 18, 1842
Time Period:
Description:
In response to the capture of San Antonio one week earlier, more than 200 Texas volunteers engage Mexican troops under the command of General Adrian Woll at Salado Creek, a few miles northwest of town. Several dozen Mexicans are killed, including Vicente Cordova, who had led a rebellion of East Texas Mexicans and Indians in 1838. One Texas is killed in the fighting.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1964), 335-63.
Uniform similar to one worn by General Woll Original Title: Costumes Mexicains. Filisola Calabrais.
Image Type: Lithograph with applied color on paper
Creator: Claudio Linati, 1828
Collection: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Image Viewed: https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/costumes-mexicains-filisola-calabrais-19853145
Image Accessed: March 8, 2021
Image Citation:
Linati, Claudio, Costumes civils, militaires et réligieux du Mexique. (Brussels, Belgium: Jobard & Sattanino, 1828)
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.412730000000
Longitude: -98.416476000000
Longitude: -98.416476000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
September 18, 1842
Event Description:
In response to the capture of San Antonio one week earlier, more than 200 Texas volunteers engage Mexican troops under the command of General Adrian Woll at Salado Creek, a few miles northwest of town. Several dozen Mexicans are killed, including Vicente Cordova, who had led a rebellion of East Texas Mexicans and Indians in 1838. One Texas is killed in the fighting.
Event Type:
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1964), 335-63.
Uniform similar to one worn by General Woll Original Title: Costumes Mexicains. Filisola Calabrais.
Image Type: Lithograph with applied color on paper
Creator: Claudio Linati, 1828
Collection: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Image Viewed: https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/costumes-mexicains-filisola-calabrais-19853145
Image Accessed: March 8, 2021
Image Citation:
Linati, Claudio, Costumes civils, militaires et réligieux du Mexique. (Brussels, Belgium: Jobard & Sattanino, 1828)