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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.
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.
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.
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 followed.
Jun 4, 2012 · On Aug. 18, 1813, more than 800 soldiers died near Pleasanton defending Texas from Spain—more than all the men killed in battles leading up to Texas independence in 1836, according to Robert...
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.
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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.
