Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad by Mark Churms at Ozark Airfield Artworks Aviation Art

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"REMEMBER THE ALAMO,
REMEMBER GOLIAD"

Churms - Unsigned Open
Edition Paper Print:
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
*Battle of San Jacinto 1836

Unsigned Image size: 11 inches high x 15 inches wide.

REMEMBER THE ALAMO, REMEMBER GOLIAD!
Immortalizing the historic make-or-break charge of nine hundred ragged Texan
militiamen against two thousand professional Mexican soldiers in April 21, 1836,
Remember the Alamo depicts Lt. Frank Hardin leading his men against Mexican
Gen Cos, with Gen. Sam Houston and Gen. Burlson, Regimental Commander, in
the background.

Frank Hardin came to Texas in 1826, and moved to Liberty Texas with his six
siblings. As a loyal Mexican citizen he only joined the rebel Texans at the fall of
1835. His local citizens elected him and officer and he went to San Antonio to fight
the Mexicans in the last major engagement of the year. Hardin had accepted Gen.
Cos' surrender at the first battle of the Alamo on December 8, 1835 when a group
of Texans ejected the Mexican garrison from Texas. The Mexicans swore to never
return to Texas again; Hardin even exchanged food for the journey back to
Mexico for a pair of Cos' silver candle sticks.

Hardin's brother, Augustine Blackburn, signed the Texas Declaration of
Independence at Washington on the Brazos on March 2, 1836. The newly formed
Texas Congress then fled in the wake of a powerful Mexican Army after its
successful defeat of a small Texas Garrison at the Alamo in San Antonio. The
Mexicans massacred the main five hundred man Texas Army after their surrender
at Goliad in cold blood leaving only Gen Sam Houston and his nine hundred men
as Texas' only, last, and feeble hope. The Texans, on the run with little food or rest
for several weeks avoided confronting Santa Anna's numerically superior army of
10,000 waiting for the right time to attack. Houston chose to attack the Mexicans
after the set up camp close to the Texans after an all night march. As the Mexicans
dozed in the early afternoon, Houston began his attack getting his entire force
within small arms range, 100 yards or so, before the Texas Band began to play,
alerting the Mexicans to their presence. Before the Texans could respond, they
entered the Mexican Camp and routed its newly awoken occupants. The Texans
achieved an incredible victory despite facing a numerical disadvantage of 20 to 1
in Texas and 4 to 1 on the field of San Jacinto the Texans defeated the Mexicans
killing 630, capturing 730, and capturing their president, Santa Anna at the cost of
only 9 Texas dead and 30 Texas wounded. Their victory paved the way for ten
years of Texas independence before it finally joined the union in 1846.

The main combatant in the painting, Frank Hardin became enraged when he
encountered Cos for the second time on the field of battle as his prisoner. Despite
Cos' dishonorable behavior, Hardin acted as the jail keeper for the Mexicans
captured at San Jacinto at his farm in Liberty, Texas earning rave reviews from his
prisoners for generous and kind treatment.