Mexican Surrender

Many Mexican soldiers who escaped the initial bloodshed were taken prisoner. After the Texans won the battle, they continued chasing down and killing Mexican soldiers, and few were allowed to surrender in the immediate aftermath. Near sunset, the exhausted Texans finally began rounding up groups to capture. Mexican Colonel Juan N. Almonte, Santa Anna's aide, noticed that the Texans were killing individual soldiers and sparing groups, so he rounded up nearly 200 men for an organized surrender. In all, the Texans took around 700 prisoners, many of whom were captured the day after the battle. Tradition holds that this was the location of Almonte's surrender, but ongoing archaeological research suggests multiple surrender sites all along Peggy Lake.

Texas · United States