The Battle of Agua Dulce was a skirmish on March 2, 1836, in Tamaulipas, Mexico, during the Goliad Campaign of the Texas Revolution. Mexican troops surprised rebellious colonists from the Mexican province of Texas, primarily immigrants from the United States, known as Texians. By the end of 1835, Texians had expelled all Mexican troops from their province. In February Frank W. Johnson, the commander of the volunteer army in Texas, along with James Grant, was leading a planned invasion of the Mexican port town of Matamoros. Unbeknownst to the Texians, Mexican General José de Urrea was leading troops from Matamoros into Texas to neutralize the rebels gathered along the coast. His troops easily defeated Johnson's small force on February 26. Several days later, informants revealed the location of another small force led by Grant, and on the morning of March 2, Urrea sent 150 troops who ambushed and defeated them. Grant fled but was killed, as were 11 men under his command. Six Texians were taken prisoner, and Urrea jailed them instead of executing them, contrary to Santa Anna's orders. Another six Texians escaped, five of whom later died in the Goliad Massacre.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1444:
Skanderbeg organised the League of Lezhë, an alliance of Albanian principalities that is regarded as the first unified Albanian state. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Lezh%C3%AB
1825:
Roberto Cofresí, one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, was defeated in combat and captured by authorities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_the_Anne
1919:
Communist, revolutionary socialist, and syndicalist delegates met in Moscow to establish the Communist International. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Congress_of_the_Comintern
1949:
The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II landed in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Lady_II
1978:
Aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28, Czech Vladimír Remek became the first person not from the Soviet Union or the United States to go into space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_28
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parterre: 1. (horticulture) A flowerbed, particularly an elevated one. 2. (horticulture) A garden with paths between such flowerbeds. 3. (theater) A part of the section of theater seats located on the ground floor, on the same level as the orchestra. 4. The part of the ground-floor section nearest the orchestra and the stage; the stalls. 5. (Britain) The part of the ground-floor section behind the stalls and underneath the galleries; the pit. 6. (theater, by extension) That part of a theater audience seated in the parterre, sometimes regarded as belonging to a lower social class. 7. (US, New York) An apartment balcony. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/parterre
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