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The Battle of Medina was fought approximately 20 miles south of San Antonio de Bexar (modern-day downtown San Antonio in the U.S. state of Texas) on August 18, 1813, as part of the Mexican War of Independence against Spanish authority in Mexico.
May 2, 2022 · The battle of Medina was fought on August 18, 1813, between the republican forces of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition under Gen. José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois and a Spanish royalist army under Gen. Joaquín de Arredondo.
Jun 5, 2022 · The 1813 Battle of Medina was one of the largest and bloodiest battles in Texas history, yet little is known about it — including the actual location of the battle. It posed an army of around 1400 white, Tejano and Native American volunteers against about 1900 Spanish army regulars.
Nov 21, 2023 · SAN ANTONIO — It was the bloodiest armed conflict in Texas history. On Aug. 18, 1813, some 1,400 people died at the Battle of Medina and during the merciless streak of executions that...
Aug 3, 2018 · Texas recorded its most ferocious battle on August 18, 1813 some miles south of San Antonio in the el encinal de Medina. The battle was fought between the Royal Spanish Army and the Republican Army or the North in conjunction with some American filibusters.
Oct 15, 2023 · The Battle of Medina was the final action of the Gutíerrez-Magee Expedition that had established the short-lived Republic of the North—often called the “Green Flag Republic” after the banner the army carried before it—in Nacogdoches in 1812.
The Battle of Medina, as the clash in the oak grove would come to be known, was one of the deadliest and most one-sided battles in North American history, with some 1,300 of the 1,400 men of the American and revolutionary army dying in the conflict and its aftermath.
May 15, 2021 · The Battle of Medina was fought just south of San Antonio in 1813. But as large and significant as this battle was, no one is exactly sure where the battle site is located. Brandon Seale, a history podcaster, is spearheading the effort to locate the site.
Aug 2, 2023 · SAN ANTONIO, TX, Aug 2, 2023: More than 1,300 men—a third of the recorded citizens of Texas at the time—died fighting for Mexican Independence in the 1813 Battle of Medina.
Feb 1, 2022 · The Battle of Medina was fought on August 18, 1813, between 1,830 Spanish Royalists under the command of General Joaquin de Arredondo and 1,400 irregulars of the Republican Army of the North under the command of General Jose Alvarez de Toledo, Colonel Miguel Menchaca, and Major Henry Perry.
