BATTLE // March 2, 1836

Battle of Agua Dulce

Name: Battle of Agua Dulce
Start: 1836-03-02
End: 1836-03-02
Location: Battle of Agua Dulce

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Significance

The Battle of Agua Dulce Creek was a skirmish within the broader Goliad Campaign, Mexico's operational effort to retake the Texas Gulf Coast during the Texas Revolution. Mexican troops under José de Urrea ambushed a Texian party led by James Grant approximately 26 miles south of San Patricio, in territory belonging to the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The engagement represented one of several actions through which Centralist forces sought to reassert control over the Gulf Coast region and press against Texian positions in the interior.

Tactics

Mexican troops conducted an ambush against the Texian party. Beyond this, the overview does not describe the tactical dispositions, terrain use, or maneuvers of either side in sufficient detail to characterize how the battle was fought.