Like Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg, it’s an uphill battle. Some 37 years into his ... “A friend and I were at Goliad in April,” TCU’s Sharpless said of a recent visit to one of the ...

commemorating Mexico’s victory over the French during the 1862 Battle of Puebla. An outnumbered Mexican army — led by Ignacio Zaragoza, a 33-year-old Texan from Goliad — defeated the ...

Walk-off winners, no-hitters and even a starting pitcher who went 10 innings in a game: check out the group of nominees for ...

A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History ...

The celebration of the battle of Puebla also acknowledges the heroic role of Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín, a 32-year officer from Goliad, Texas. Soon after the surrender of Veracruz, Juárez had appointed ...

The hotly anticipated Star Wars version of strategy hit Memoir 44 gets its first public demo at the UK’s leading tabletop ...

"Celebrating Champions of Culture" Returns to Spotlight 10 Years of Amplifying HBCU Band Culture HOUSTON, May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The PEPSI National Battle of the Bands (NBOTB) is celebrating ...

After weeks of fierce fighting, even battle-hardened U.S. Marines were “sitting on the ground, hands to their faces, sobbing their hearts out.” Among the most brutal battles of World War II in ...

What was the most important battle in English history? If you answered the Battle of Hastings, the 1066 A.D. conflict in which the Normans successfully took over the English crown, you’re not alone.