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Fannin, James Walker

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Fannin, James Walker (1809–36) army colonel from Georgia who fought in the Texas War of Independence (1836) and whose surrender to Mexican forces led to his execution and that of more than 340 Texans in what came to be known as the Goliad Massacre.

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