Remember Goliad!: A History of La Bahía

When Sam Houston's revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence for Texas, their battle cry was "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Everyone knows about the Alamo, but far fewer know about the stirring events at Goliad.

Craig Roell's lively new study of Goliad brings to life this most important Texas community.

Though its population has never exceeded two thousand, Goliad has been an important site of Texas history since Spanish colonial days. I…