1.11 - The Battle of Medina
Spanish Royalists responded to San Antonio's 1813 Declaration of Independence by massacring the Republican Army of the North and by implementing a deliberate policy of terror against San Antonio's civilians, summarily executing almost three hundred of San Antonio's leading men while forcing their wives, daughters, and mothers to slave away on behalf of the soldiers murdering their loved ones. Few communities in New Spain suffered the way that San Antonio did for Mexican Independence, and it remains the bloodiest episode in Texas history.
Recommended resource: Ted Schwarz and Robert H. Thonoff, Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution
