The following month, a contingent of soldiers arrived in Béxar with Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea. In July, Colonel Nicolas Condelle, led 200 men to reinforce Presidio La Bahía. The Texians staged a minor revolt against customs duties in June these Anahuac Disturbances prompted Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna to send additional troops to Texas. A central committee in San Felipe de Austin coordinated their activities. In early 1835, as the Mexican government transitioned from a federalist model to centralism, wary colonists in Texas began forming Committees of Correspondence and Safety. The victory isolated Cos's men in Béxar from the coast, forcing them to rely on a long overland march to request or receive reinforcements or supplies. The majority of the Mexican soldiers were instructed to leave Texas, and the Texians confiscated $10,000 worth of provisions and several cannons, which they soon transported to the Texian Army for use in the siege of Béxar. One Mexican soldier had been killed and three others wounded, while only one Texian, Samuel McCulloch Jr. After a half an hour battle, the Mexican garrison, under Colonel Juan López Sandoval, surrendered. Using axes borrowed from townspeople, Texians were able to chop through a door and enter the complex before the bulk of the soldiers were aware of their presence. The garrison at La Bahía was understaffed and could not mount an effective defense of the fort's perimeter. The Texians soon learned that Cos and his men had already departed for San Antonio de Béxar but continued their march. However, within days of the Texian victory at the Battle of Gonzales, Captain George Collinsworth and members of the Texian militia in Matagorda began marching towards Goliad. The plan was initially dismissed by the central committee coordinating the rebellion. In September, Texians began plotting to kidnap Mexican General Martín Perfecto de Cos, who was en route to Goliad to attempt to quell the unrest in Texas. La Bahía lay halfway between the only other large garrison of Mexican soldiers (at Presidio San Antonio de Béxar) and the then-important Texas port of Copano. In the early-morning hours of October 9, 1835, Texas settlers attacked the Mexican Army soldiers garrisoned at Presidio La Bahía, a fort near the Mexican Texas settlement of Goliad. The Battle of Goliad was the second skirmish of the Texas Revolution. This map of the Presidio La Bahía was drawn in 1836.
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