San Antonio, TX, United States
Battle of Rosillo. In this vicinity the Battle of Rosillo was fought on March 28, 1813. Here the "Republican Army of the North" composed of Anglo-Americans, Mexicans and Indians defeated, with heavy loss of life, Spanish Royalists troops commanded by Manuel de Salcedo, Governor of Texas. The prisone
rs of war were brutally murdered shortly afterwards by order of Colonel Bernardo Gutierrez. (1936) #329
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