Some 173 years after Texas won its independence from Mexico in the Battle of San Jacinto, a Dallas attorney’s Internet sleuthing turned up and then tracked down the skulls of six Mexican soldiers slain in that fight.
The battle happened near Houston on April 21, 1836, when Gen. Sam Houston’s army routed the Mexican forces led by Gen. Santa Anna. Thanks to Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr shareholder Jeff Dunn’s searching, a forensic analysis has been performed on the skulls, and an artist is working to re-create the men’s faces.
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