USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Joaquín de Arredondo. This bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place twenty miles south of San Antonio in a sandy oak forest region then called el encinal de Medina.

Detailed explanation-2: -Brandon Seale: So the Battle Medina is the largest, bloodiest battle in Texas history, and yet it’s largely unknown. It occurred in 1813, so [about 23] years before the better known events of the Texas Revolution in 1835-36.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 1813 Battle of Medina is considered the first Texas revolution, and though unsuccessful on the part of the rebels-more than 1, 000 are presumed to have been killed, their families harassed and sent out of Texas-it served as just the first step in a war that culminated in the success of the 1836 rebellion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Spanish troops led by General José Joaquín de Arredondo defeated republican forces (calling themselves the Republican Army of the North), consisting of Tejano-Mexican and Tejano-American revolutionaries participating in the Gutiérrez–Magee Expedition, under General José Álvarez de Toledo y Dubois.