The Battle of San Jacinto Symposium 2017
SAN JACINTO
The victory that gave us Texas!
Saturday, April 8, 2017
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Come to this hallowed battleground for a symposium Gregg J. Dimmick
on San Jacinto, the victory that gave us Texas!
Dimmick will concentrate on the Mexican army. A “natural
historian and avocational archaeologist,” this Wharton
“The battle at the Alamo is sacred, but victory at San pediatrician, in 1996, discovered that his town was on
Jacinto gave us Texas,” says James E. Crisp PhD, who the path Santa Anna’s army took on its return to Mexico.
returns for his 15th stint as symposium moderator. Dimmick subsequently researched and authored the award“It’s not often you can hear historians discuss one of winning Sea of Mud: The Retreat of the Mexican Army after San
the most important battles in history – then tour the Jacinto.
actual battle site on the same day.” Crisp is a Fellow of
the Texas State Historical Association and Professor of Stephen L. Hardin
History at North Carolina State University.
Hardin, a professor of History at McMurry University,
will view San Jacinto through the eyes of the ordinary
In the morning, hear scholars discuss the ordinary Texian soldier. His numerous publications include the
Texan and Mexican soldiers and their arms and battle award-winning Texian Illiad: A Military History of the Texas
tactics. After lunch, tour the battleground (tours Revolution and Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging
optional). Teachers earn six CPE credits for the full in Early Houston.
day.
Laura McLemore
J. P. Bryan
McLemore, an archivist at the Noel Memorial Library, LSUBryan, a descendent of Moses Austin, will discuss the Shreveport, will discuss the roles of Andrew Briscoe and
legacy of San Jacinto. An avid collector of books, the Harris family during the San Jacinto campaign. Her
documents, artifacts and fine art documenting the history most recent writing is Adele Looscan: Daughter of the Republic,
of the Southwest, this Texas oil man recently placed his Texas Biography Series of the TCU Press.
70,000-piece collection in the Bryan Museum in Galveston.
He is an honorary life member of the Texas State Historical
Association.
2017 Battle of San Jacinto Symposium
Registration Form
Please register by April 3, 2017.
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The Monument Inn
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Price includes Symposium registration (optional tour is extra) and an invitation to meet the speakers at the Patrons’ Reception, 6 p.m., Friday, April 7. You will be recognized in the program.
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Reservations and payments can be made online at www.sanjacintobattlegroundconservancy.org.
Or mail the form above to San Jacinto Symposium, P. O. Box 940536, Houston TX 77094. Make checks payable to “San Jacinto Battleground Conservancy.” For additional information, call Wolfram M.VonMaszewski at (281)238-4066 or email [email protected]
Illustration Note: The Tejanos and Texians who served under Sam Houston were not issued uniforms. This Texian wears a broad brimmed sombrero
and a soft yellow buckskin coat. His knee-high boots serve as protection when riding his half-broken mustang. He carries a trusty Kentucky rifle,
and tucks two flintlocks and a Bowie knife into his sash.The defiant young fusilier loading his Brown Bess Musket is a member of the Fifth Company
of the Batallón Permanente de Matamoros commanded by Coronel (Colonel) José Maria Manuel Romero. He is wearing his blue casaca (dresscoat)
with white panatalones (pants) made of lienzo (linen). A guaje (gourd) hangs from his belt.
Sketches of the Texian and the Soldado are by Manuel Hinojosa, principal with Rike Ogden Figueroa Allex Architects, Inc., McAllen, Texas.
sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University,
The Texas State Historical Association, and Humanities Texas.