| A | B |
| Groce | Houston trained at this Texan's plantation |
| massacre | to kill many at one time |
| Harrisburg | the site of the Texas Republic's Ad interim |
| bayou | a small river that is usually marshy |
| Sabine | river in the northeast corner of Texas, toward which Texans in the Runaway Scrape fled |
| infantry | soldiers that fight on foot |
| calvary | soldiers that are mounted on horseback |
| flank | the right or left side of the formation |
| Invincible | a warship in the Texas Navy |
| lorenzo de Zavala | opened his home as a hospital during the Battle of San Jacinto |