Industrial Age · North America · War
1836
Battle of San Jacinto
April 21, 1836
In eighteen minutes on a swampy Texas prairie, Sam Houston's ragged army routed Santa Anna's dozing camp, killed six hundred, and captured the Mexican president himself. Texas was independent. It would be its own republic for nine years before the United States, made nervous by its debts, finally annexed it.
In context
Also in 1836 (4 other events on record)
- Fall of the Alamo · North America · War
- Great Trek Begins · Africa · Politics
- Dickens's Pickwick Papers · Europe · Culture
- Sam Houston President of Texas · North America · Politics
Before and after in North America
- Before: 1835: Texas Revolution Begins
- After: May 10, 1837: Panic of 1837
Before and after in War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.