Black plaque № 17022

Goliad, TX, United States

Replica of Texas Independence Flagpole. Displays a replica of banner unfurled Dec. 20, 1835, at signing of Declaration of Independence of Texas from tyranny of Santa Anna's regime in Mexico. That declaration, drafted by staunch early patriots Philip Dimitt and Ira Ingram, and signed by 92 citizens a

nd soldiers, was later suppressed as premature, but it forecast coming events. A battle flag used 11 weeks earlier (and sometimes called "First Flag of Texas") lacked the support of a formal declarati

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