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The Goliad Declaration of Independence and the “Bloody Arm Flag”
Texans mark March 2, 1836, as the day Texas declared its independence. Seventy-three days earlier, the garrison and citizens at Goliad had already done it.
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Texans mark March 2, 1836, as the day Texas declared its independence. Seventy-three days earlier, the garrison and citizens at Goliad had already done it.
On this day, 181 years ago, delegates from across Texas signed a formal declaration to the Government of Mexico, and its military dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna, that they would no...