Battle of Goliad

Overview

The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large garrison of Mexican soldiers and the then-important Texas port of Copano.

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Significance

The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution, fought when Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army garrison at Presidio La Bahía in the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835. The fort's location carried strategic weight: La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large Mexican garrison in the region and the port of Copano, then an important point of entry into Texas. Seizing it disrupted a link in the Mexican military's logistical and positional network at the outset of the revolution, denying centralist forces a position that connected interior garrisons to coastal supply lines.

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