R Clayton McKee | Photo Galleries | 2011 San Jacinto Festival and Battle Re-Enactment | The Runaway Scrape

After the fall of the Alamo, Santa Anna's army rampaged across Texas, trying to get ahead of the Texian government which had fled from Washington towards Galveston. En route the Mexicans pillaged farms and attacked settlements. The Texians not with the army, mostly women, children, and men too old or infirm to fight, fled for their lives, taking only what they could easily carry. A few settlers managed to take livestock with them, but most were left behind.... This panicked flight has come down through history as the "Runaway Scrape."

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