March 1– The Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers is the only group to answer Col. Travis’ call for assistance in defending the Alamo. This party of Texas Rangers dies alongside the other defenders of the Alamo.
March – A Texas Ranger detachment rescues a child of Sarah Hibbons kidnapped by Comanches.
March 2 – The Texas Declaration of Independence is signed and the Republic of Texas born.
March 6 – After a two-week siege, a Mexican force estimated at 5,000 overwhelms the estimated 190 defenders of the Alamo. All of the defenders perish — including the Gonzales ranging company and seven Hispanic defenders opposing Santa Anna’s coup.
March 19 – After receiving news of the fall of the Alamo, some 300 Texians at Goliad under Fannin, including Rangers, soldiers and noncombatants, begin a retreat. Unfortunately, it is too late — Santa Anna catches them on the open prairie and accepts their surrender after a small skirmish.
March 27 – On Palm Sunday, Fannin’s entire command is marched into the fields near Goliad and executed at Gen. Santa Anna’s order. An estimated 350 are executed and a few escape. The massacres of 540 defenders at the Alamo and Goliad becomes a battle cry for the Texians “Remember the Alamo, Remember Goliad.”
From February, until the battle at San Jacinto, the Tumlinson Rangers fight a rearguard action protecting colonists and the fragmented Texian Army retreating in front of the Mexican Army in the “Runaway Scrape.”