Mexican Cavalry, Battle of San Jacinto

The tablet sets out the Mexican line; Colonel Pedro Delgado of Santa Anna's staff watched it break. His account, printed in the Texas Almanac for 1870, says the cavalry were riding bareback to and from water when the bugler on the right sounded the Texan advance. Standing on ammunition boxes, he saw a thin line in one rank, its horsemen overlapping the Mexican left. Castrillón went down, Colonel Treviño was killed and Colonel Marcial Aguirre was badly wounded. In a bayshore grove, Delgado wrote, a Texan cavalry captain named Allen kept the captured officers from being slaughtered.

What the plaque says

Mexican Cavalry, Battle of San Jacinto The Mexican Cavalry was on the left wing, Infantry and Artillery in the center behind a fortification of boxes and baggage, while the extreme right was far extended.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 1.9 mi
  The 1,200 acres of coastal prairie and marsh where the Texas Revolution ended in eighteen minutes, and the 567-foot shaft of fossil-studded limestone that has stood over them since 1939.
• Space Center Houston — 12 mi
  The visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center at Clear Lake, with flown capsules, a shuttle replica riding a 747, and tram tours to Mission Control and a Saturn V.
• Emancipation Park — 17 mi
  The Third Ward park that freedpeople bought for Juneteenth in 1872, rebuilt in 2017 on Emancipation Avenue and still the center of the city's June 19 celebration.
• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 17 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.

More markers nearby

• Will You Come to the Bower, Battle of San Jacinto — 0.6 mi
• Near Here on the Afternoon of April 21, Site of Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 — 0.6 mi
• Texas Army Attacked in Four Divisions — 0.6 mi
• Battle of San Jacinto — 0.6 mi