Historical Marker
Battleground Prairie
Historical marker location:
Seguin, Texas
( from Seguin, take US 90A East five miles to Marker site.)
Marker installed: 1936
Where 80 volunteers commanded by General Edward Burleson defeated Vicente Cordova and 75 Mexicans, Indians and Negroes, March 29, 1839, and drove them from Texas, ending the "Cordova Rebellion." 25 of the enemy were killed. Many volunteers were wounded, but none fatally.
1936.
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