GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.470733000000
Longitude: -98.294940000000
Longitude: -98.294940000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
September 18, 1842
Time Period:
Description:
In an effort to reinforce Anglo-Texas volunteers engaged in the defense of San Antonio at Salado Creek, a company of fifty-three Fayette County militiamen under the command of Capt. Nicholas Mosby Dawson is intercepted by Mexican cavalry northeast of town. Thirty-six Texans are killed; fifteen are taken prisoner.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1964), 364-81.
Mexican Lancier Original Title: Costumes Mexicans. Lancier Mexicain.
Image Type: Lithograph with applied color on paper
Creator: Claudio Linati, 1828
Collection: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Image Viewed: http://imuacm.cartermuseum.org/#details=ecatalogue.148219
Image Accessed: December 2, 2020
Image Citation:
Linati, Claudio, Costumes civils, militaires et réligieux du Mexique. (Brussels, Belgium: Jobard & Sattanino), 1828.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.470733000000
Longitude: -98.294940000000
Longitude: -98.294940000000
County:
- Bexar
Date:
September 18, 1842
Event Description:
In an effort to reinforce Anglo-Texas volunteers engaged in the defense of San Antonio at Salado Creek, a company of fifty-three Fayette County militiamen under the command of Capt. Nicholas Mosby Dawson is intercepted by Mexican cavalry northeast of town. Thirty-six Texans are killed; fifteen are taken prisoner.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Joseph Milton Nance, Attack and Counter-Attack: The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842 (Austin: University of Texas at Austin, 1964), 364-81.
Mexican Lancier Original Title: Costumes Mexicans. Lancier Mexicain.
Image Type: Lithograph with applied color on paper
Creator: Claudio Linati, 1828
Collection: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Image Viewed: http://imuacm.cartermuseum.org/#details=ecatalogue.148219
Image Accessed: December 2, 2020
Image Citation:
Linati, Claudio, Costumes civils, militaires et réligieux du Mexique. (Brussels, Belgium: Jobard & Sattanino), 1828.