A Partner in the Search for the Battlefield of Medina

I am very pleased to announce that we have found a partner to help us in our search for the lost Battlefield of Medina!

The American Veterans Archaeological Recovery Project conducts expert archaeological fieldwork worldwide by combining the drive and precision of military veterans with academic training and supervision. While our program primarily serves disabled veterans, our emphasis is on ability. We work diligently to create a program that accommodates a diverse community of veterans. Unique in the United States, the AVAR program helps veterans find their future while exploring the past. We describe the enhancement of archaeological fieldwork processes to benefit and develop the participant over the long-term as ‘Rehabilitation Archaeology’.

And who better to help us with our search for a lost battlefield than veterans?

AVAR’s first project in Texas is going to be the hunt for the lost Battlefield of Medina, with the support of two other critical organizations: the Texas Historical Commission and the Atascosa County Historical Commission. Neither of these groups needs an introduction to fans of the Battle of Medina, but they have decades worth of information that they can share with us and they will hold us accountable to make sure that our methods and procedures are the best..

Many of you over the last few years have asked me, How can I help with the search for the battlefield? Now there is a way. AVAR has set up a GoFundMe page (www.tinyurl.com/findmedina) to help us raise the money to conduct the desktop work, field surveys, and excavations that we hope to be conducting over the next two years. For more information, you can also go to AVAR’s Project page, which we have just stood up and will continue to add more information to as it develops.

One last time, please DONATE (www.tinyurl.com/findmedina) and tell others who might be interested. And if you’ve contacted me prior with information about the Battle of Medina, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about you. I’ll be circling back in due time. At last I feel like we can systematically begin to honor the men who died on August 18, 1813, for their dream of Texas…and it’s gonna take all of us to make that happen.