This is Palm Sunday. In 1836 on Palm Sunday, which was on 27 March that year, the Mexican army executed the members of the Texas army that was defending Goliad, Texas. They had promised that the Texans would not be executed when they surrendered after a short battle, but Santa Anna ordered their execution anyway. (The Mexicans lost sixty men in the battle compared to nine for the Texans, but the Texans were outnumbered three to one, and were out of water.) About three hundred and fifty prisoners who were unaware that they were about to be shot were marched out in three groups. The groups were not synchronised and one group of Mexicans fired before the others. The prisoners in the other two groups, upon hearing the shots, ran. About twenty-eight escaped. The Texans wounded in the battle were bayoneted in the hospital. (The hospital staff was spared so they could treat the Mexican wounded.) The Texan's leader, Col. Fannin, who was among the wounded, was executed by firing squad. The Mexicans agreed to his request that he be shot in the chest, that his pocket watch be sent to his family, and that he be given a Christain burial. So, they shot him in the head, stole his watch and threw his body in the river. I suppose it didn't cost them anything to be polite.