Copyright @ 2013 Caller Times July 6, 2013 Below is one of the letters that Wanda received in response to the article above. How timely. Children are not being taught history, civics or geography because teachers are teaching to the test! Whatever the name, TAKS, STARR, etc. that address mathematics, reading, writing and some science.…

After the Battle of Salado, we took possession of St Antonio 1st April 1813—at which time 1.4 Spanish officers surrendered without Battle, who were confined separately as crimnals; this was followed by another surrender on the same day, of 8 hundred soldiers & their officers, who joined the ranks of the patriots and took an…

In 1811, idealist Revilla native Don José Bernardo Maximiliano Gutiérrez de Lara became dedicated to the Hidalgo Independence movement. Consequently he received the rank of Lt. Colonel in Hidalgo’s Army of the Americas and traveled to Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia to enlist aid for his personal goals in the movement in Texas. In Washington and…

From notes furnished by Col. W. D. C. Hall and originally published in Yanaguana Society Publications, vol. VI, 1941 In 1811 and 1812 Col. W. D. C. Hall was residing at Nachitoches, and engaged in the study of law under the late distinguished Judge William Murray, who was then a practicing lawyer in the parishes…