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The 177th annual celebration of the Battle of San Jacinto -- the shortest battle in American history at 18 minutes -- took place on the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte last ...

Anyone who's visited the Texas capitol in Austin has seen the epic painting depicting the Battle of San Jacinto, where Sam Houston whipped up on the Mexican Army. There was a smaller, slightly ...

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On this day 178 years ago, a restive, rag-tag army of Texans under Gen. Sam Houston set up camp on the coastal prairie between Buffalo Bayou and the San Jacinto River, engaged in a few exploratory ...