The Runaway Scrape is the period in early 1836 generally beginning with the Siege and Fall of the Alamo and ending with the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21. It was a period of terror and panic among the settlements of Texas, as Santa Anna and the Mexican armies swept eastward from San Antonio, virtually unopposed.
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The Runaway Scrape was the name given to the flight of Anglo and Tejano settlers in early 1836 fleeing their homes in Texas after early failures of the rebellion against the Mexican government. Mexi...
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This site features an in depth description of the Runaway Scrape, General Sam Houston's Retreat from Santa Anna after Goliad and the Alamo ... The period roughly between the fall of the Alamo, and the Victory at San Jacinto is known as "The Runaway Scrape." During this time, there was mass confusion and panic across Texas.
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The Runaway Scrape, a mad dash to safety by civilians and government officials, to escape the Mexican army in the aftermath of the Alamo and the massacre at Goliad. ... Less well recalled is the Runaway Scrape produced by the fall of the Alamo and the massacre at Goliad a couple of weeks later. The Runaway Scrape was a mad...
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While not an exodus of Biblical proportions, what came to be called the Runaway Scrape has not received the scholarly attention it deserves. Thousands of people hastily left their homes and most of their belongings hoping to outrun Gen.
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The mass evacuation of settlers has become known in Texas history as the "Runaway Scrape". Houston gathered all the men he and supplies he could and left Gonzales just before midnight on the 13th of March, burning the town behind him.
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The Runaway Scrape narrated by Creed Taylor, ca. 1900, in Tall Men with Long Rifles by James T. DeShields. A true account of this colorful episode, including all of its pathetic incidents has never been written and I suppose now will never be given to the world.
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The Runaway Scrape and Return told to Andrew Jackson Sowell published in Rangers and Pioneers of Texas, 1884. Several families remained here at Columbia for some time, until the times became more settled.
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The term Runaway Scrape was the name Texans applied to the flight from their homes when Antonio López de Santa Anna began his attempted conquest of Texas in February 1836. The first communities to be affected were those in the south central portions of Texas around San Patricio, Refugio, and San Antonio.
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The runaway scrape was when families in the Gonzales area panicked when they learned that Santa Anna intended to kill all Anglo Americans and fled as far east as they could.
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