Preservation: Surrender Site

Surrender Site   We now know just where the Mexican army surrendered to Sam Houston’s forces at the Battle of San Jacinto. You mean, the site was lost? The place where Texas independence was achieved in 1836, where “Remember the Alamo!” became a cry for the ages? Hard to believe—but true. A group of San Jacinto veterans marked “the site” in 1890, but their memories were bad; they marked the wrong place. Historians have suspected the actual location was in a heavily wooded and ove