History aficionados will be intrigued by the San Jacinto Battleground. The State Historic Site is where an important, if not the most important, battle for Texas' independence took place in 1836.

presented by the San Jacinto Museum and Battlefield Association and the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site, will take place on April 22, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Events include exhibits of ...

Today is San Jacinto Day. On April 21, 1836, in a prairie next to what’s now the Houston Ship Channel, Sam Houston’s troops won the battle that seceded Texas from Mexico. But strangely, ...

The battlefield lay, as it does now, on a marshy peninsula where Buffalo Bayou intersected the San Jacinto River. The Houston ship channel, neither as grand nor as pestilential as it would later ...

LA PORTE, Texas (KTRK) -- Thousands of candles will burn brightly Saturday night, setting the San Jacinto Monument and battleground aglow in honor of Texans who made the ultimate sacrifice for our ...