Texas Kids Revolt

On March 27, 1836, Mexican troops placed a wounded Texian officer in a chair in the courtyard of Fort Defiance. His back was to a 1779 Catholic chapel, where, earlier that day, most of his men had been held prisoner before they were marched out and executed by the Mexicans. Then a firing squad shot Col. James Fannin to death—the last victim of the Goliad Massacre. Texian troops later buried his burned remains, and those of his 342 men, southeast of the fort, which reverted to its or