36 min

Terror in Texas Finding Medina

    • History

(WARNING: This episode contains graphic language)
After defeating the Republican Army of the North at the Battle of Medina, Spanish Royalist General Joaquín de Arredondo entered San Antonio intent on teaching its citizens a lesson they would never forget. The subsequent Sack of Béxar, the execution of hundreds of Tejano men, and the imprisonment and assault of just as many Tejana women marked Texans for many generations to come…though not, perhaps, in the way that Arredondo intended.
The research team makes one last effort to high-grade the various leads they have compiled over the course of the previous year to map the battle site, based sol

(WARNING: This episode contains graphic language)
After defeating the Republican Army of the North at the Battle of Medina, Spanish Royalist General Joaquín de Arredondo entered San Antonio intent on teaching its citizens a lesson they would never forget. The subsequent Sack of Béxar, the execution of hundreds of Tejano men, and the imprisonment and assault of just as many Tejana women marked Texans for many generations to come…though not, perhaps, in the way that Arredondo intended.
The research team makes one last effort to high-grade the various leads they have compiled over the course of the previous year to map the battle site, based sol

36 min

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