Historical Marker
Battle of Rosillo
Historical marker location:
4226 SE Military Drive, San Antonio, Texas
( At the Confluence of W.W. White Road and the Hildebrandt in Southeast Bexar County. Also known as Battle of Rosalis.)
Marker installed: 1936
In this vicinity the Battle of Rosillo was fought on March 28, 1813. Here the "Republican Army of the North" composed of Anglo-Americans, Mexicans and Indians defeated, with heavy loss of life, Spanish Royalists troops commanded by Manuel de Salcedo, Governor of Texas. The prisoners of war were brutally murdered shortly afterwards by order of Colonel Bernardo Gutierrez. (1936).