Battleground Prairie

The band defeated here had fled a conspiracy uncovered near Nacogdoches. In August 1838 men searching there for stolen horses were fired on, and Vicente Córdova, a former alcalde and judge, was soon reported camped on the Angelina River with about a hundred followers; local Indians joined them, bringing their number to some 400. Córdova and eighteen others signed a proclamation saying they could no longer bear injuries to their rights. Thirty-three men with Spanish surnames were later indicted for treason, and papers found on Mexican agents persuaded President Lamar to drive the Cherokees from Texas.

What the plaque says

Battleground Prairie Where 80 volunteers commanded by General Edward Burleson defeated Vicente Cordova and 75 Mexicans, Indians and Negroes, March 29, 1839, and drove them from Texas, ending the "Cordova Rebellion." 25 of the enemy were killed. Many volunteers were wounded, but none fatally. 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 17 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 17 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 22 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Lockhart Courthouse Square — 25 mi
  A cotton-era courthouse town named the Barbecue Capital of Texas, built near the 1840 Plum Creek fight that followed the killing of Comanche leaders at peace talks.

More markers nearby

• Henry Eustace McCulloch — 2.8 mi
• Claiborne West — 4.5 mi
• Riverside Cemetery — 4.5 mi
• Juan Seguin — 4.5 mi