It was 4:30 p.m. when scout Deaf Smith announced the burn­ing of Vince’s Bridge, the only avenue of retreat for the oppos­ing army. The main Texan bat­tle line moved for­ward with their approach screened by the trees and ris­ing ground. Gen­eral Sam Hous­ton per­son­ally led the infantry. In the cen­ter, two small brass, smooth­bore artillery pieces (donated by cit­i­zens of Cincin­nati, Ohio) known as the “Twin Sis­ters” were wheeled for­ward, sup­ported by four com­pa­nies of infantry.

The Texan army moved quickly and silently across the high-grass plain, and then, when they were only a few dozen yards away, charged Santa Anna’s camp shout­ing “Remem­ber the Alamo!”  The Tex­ans achieved com­plete sur­prise. It was a bold attack in broad day­light.  Santa Anna’s army, con­sist­ing pri­mar­ily of pro­fes­sional sol­diers, quickly col­lapsed. Hun­dreds of the demor­al­ized and con­fused Mex­i­can sol­diers were routed. The Texan army had won a stun­ning victory.

The Bat­tle of San Jac­into, fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day Har­ris County, Texas, was the deci­sive bat­tle of the Texas Rev­o­lu­tion. Santa Anna, the Pres­i­dent of Mex­ico, was cap­tured the fol­low­ing day and held as a pris­oner of war. Three weeks later, he signed the peace treaty that dic­tated that the Mex­i­can army leave the region, paving the way for the Repub­lic of Texas to become an inde­pen­dent coun­try.
Mea­sured by its results, San Jac­into was one of the deci­sive bat­tles of the world. The free­dom of Texas  from Mex­ico won here led to annex­a­tion and to the Mexican-American War, result­ing in the acqui­si­tion by the United States of the states of Texas, New Mex­ico, Ari­zona, Nevada, Cal­i­for­nia, Utah and parts of Col­orado, Wyoming, Kansas and Okla­homa. Almost one-third of the present area of the Amer­i­can Nation, nearly a mil­lion square miles of ter­ri­tory, changed sovereignty.

Chap­man Wealth Man­age­ment takes pride in cel­e­brat­ing San Jac­into Day. Don’t Mess With Texas!