San Jacinto Museum of History

San Jacinto Museum of History
One Monument Circle
La Porte (Houston), TX 77571-9585
Phone: 281.479.2421
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The Battle of San Jacinto consisted of approximately 900 men under the command of General Sam Houston who fought against a Mexican army of approximately 1,300 under Mexican President Antonio L?pez de Santa Anna.  Only nine Texans were killed or mortally wounded. Mexican soldiers killed numbered 630. More than 700 Mexican soldiers were taken prisoner.

The Battle of San Jacinto avenged the massacre of Texan soldiers at the Alamo (March 6, 1836) and Goliad (March 27, 1836), and gave Texas its independence from Mexico. The Battle also opened the door for the westward expansion of the United States.

The San Jacinto Museum of History was chartered in 1938 to ?preserve and revisualize the history of early Texas.? The Museum? s collection spans more than four centuries of early Texas history, from the beginnings of European activity in the New World through Texas as a state in the United States. Emphasis is on colonial Texas as a part of Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the early days of statehood. The Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library houses a collection of more than 250,000 documents and manuscripts and 30,000 volumes of rare books and pamphlets

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