These remains and the remains of the men killed in the failed Mier Expedition were reinterred in a common tomb in a cement vault on a bluff one mile south of La Grange.
La Grange citizens then retrieved the remains of the men killed in the Dawson Massacre, from their burial site near Salado Creek.
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The attack was partly in hopes of financial gain and partly in retaliation for the Dawson Massacre, in which thirty-six Texans were killed by the Mexican Army.
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The battle, which lasted just over an hour, ended with thirty-six Texans dead and fifteen captured in what became known as the Dawson Massacre.
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Although Antonio López de Santa Anna, the ruler of Mexico, was defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto and signed the Treaties of Velasco in 1836, ceding Texas territory from Mexican control, his forces continued to invade the Republic of Texas hoping to regain control.
Pancho Villa Expedition | Northern Expedition | Lewis and Clark Expedition | French Antarctic Expedition | Vancouver Expedition | Expedition Robinson | Northern Expedition (1926–1927) | Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Belgian Antarctic Expedition | Terra Nova Expedition | Ford Expedition | punitive expedition | Challenger expedition | Calvert Expedition | Blandowski Expedition | Australasian Antarctic Expedition | Transglobe Expedition | Texas Santa Fe Expedition | Swedish Antarctic Expedition | Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan | Mier Expedition | Great Northern Expedition | Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Ciudad Mier | Benin Expedition of 1897 | Wolseley Expedition | Tanager Expedition | ''Tanager'' Expedition | Sullivan Expedition | Sicilian Expedition |
This volume of more than seven hundred pages is the full account of the Mier Expedition, a Texas militia which attacked the Mexican border community of Ciudad Mier on December 26, 1842.
Lubbock and his men were among the Texans who followed Alexander Somervell back to Texas on December 19, 1842, after declining to join William S. Fisher on the Mier Expedition.