Finding Medina: Is this the Battlefield of Medina?

by Brandon Seale August 18, 2019January 31, 2020

Reenactors line up to shoot muskets in remembrance of the Battle of Medina on its 206th anniversary at the supposed location of the Battle of Medina on Old Applewhite Road in Atascosa County, Texas. Credit: Bonnie Arbittier / San Antonio Report

The trauma of 1813 stuck with Tejanos … and it emboldened them. What lessons did they draw from the Battle of Medina? What lessons should we draw today?

And at long last, we point our finger to the map and ask, “Is this the Battlefield of Medina?”

A raw heat map of the probable location of the Battle of Medina.

Brandon Seale

Brandon Seale is the president of Howard Energy Ventures. With degrees in philosophy, law, and business, he writes and records stories about the residents of the borderland and about the intersection of... More by Brandon Seale