Historical Marker
Near Here on the Afternoon of April 21, Site of Battle of San Jacinto, 1836
Houston, Harris County · Texas
Erected 1936
The tablet places Houston's army in line near here; how many men stood in that line was argued for a century. Houston's official report of April 25, 1836, counted 783. A roster he published later listed 845 officers and men but left out Captain Alfred H. Wyly's company, and in an 1859 Senate speech he said his effective force never passed 700. L. W. Kemp, working from official records, reached 910, with another 248, mostly sick men, left at the camp opposite Harrisburg. Only Captain William Wood's Kentucky Rifles wore uniforms.
What the plaque says
Near Here on the Afternoon of April 21, Site of Battle of San Jacinto, 1836 Near here on the afternoon of April 21, 1836, the army of the Republic of Texas, commanded by General Sam Houston was drawn up to attack an invading Mexican army commanded by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Where it stands
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Worth the stop nearby
- San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site — 1.3 miThe 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 miThe 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 miThe 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 miTen 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.