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Battle of Medina

  Texas Historical Markers
Old Applewhite Rd, Mangum Rd, Leming, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 29° 6' 31.698", -98° 32' 20.4972"
 
    Texas State
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    Was fought here on August 18, 1813 by an army of Spanish Royalists commanded by General José Joaquin Arredondo which defeated with terrific slaughter the an Army of the North composed of Anglo-Americans, Mexicans and Indians commanded by José Alvarez de Toledo — thus ended an attempt to free Texas and Mexico from Spanish rule.

Erected by the State of Texas, 1936

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Battle of Medina Historical Marker Location Map, Leming, Texas