On this site stood Fort Lipantitlan

The 1842 fight here was short and lopsided, and its date is disputed. General James Davis, writing from Camp Lipantitlan, reported that about seven hundred Mexican troops under Antonio Canales, two hundred regulars and five hundred rancheros with a four-pounder, struck at daylight after he had moved his camp to stronger ground. They withdrew after about twenty minutes, leaving three dead; he guessed their losses at thirty or more. No Texan was killed or wounded. His report is dated July 7, and the plaque says June 7.

What the plaque says

On this site stood Fort Lipantitlan Occupied in 1831 by soldiers of the Mexican army to prevent further Anglo-American colonization in Texas. Captured November 4, 1835 by volunteers under Captain Ira Westover. Unsuccessfully attacked June 7, 1842 by 700 men under Gen. Antonio Canales while defended by 192 men under General James Davis. Five acres of land surrounding the site of the fort were generously donated to the State of Texas by the heirs of J.C. Bluntzer in 1937. Erected by the State of Texas 1936

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lipantitlán State Historic Site — steps away
  Five undeveloped acres on the Nueces named for the Lipan Apaches who camped here, where Mexico built an earth-and-rail fort that Texans took early in the Revolution.
• Lake Corpus Christi State Park — 7.6 mi
  A lake park in the South Texas brush country above Mathis, on a reservoir of the Nueces, with a Civilian Conservation Corps refectory and more than 200 bird species.
• Texas State Aquarium — 28 mi
  A nonprofit aquarium on the tip of Corpus Christi Beach built around the Gulf and the Caribbean, with the largest coastal wildlife rescue center in Texas behind the exhibits.
• Art Museum of South Texas — 28 mi
  Philip Johnson's 1972 museum on the Corpus Christi bayfront, joined in 2006 by Ricardo Legorreta's Miller Wing, holding more than 2,000 works mostly from Texas and the Americas.

More markers nearby

• Site of the Home of James McGloin — 1.7 mi
• Old Dougherty House — 2.9 mi
• Courthouses of San Patricio County — 2.9 mi
• Josepha Rodriguez — 2.9 mi