Santa Anna's forces were moving eastward toward Gonzales, according to scouts. Houston started a series of calculated withdrawals in order to buy himself enough time to get his army into combat form because he was ill-prepared to face the Mexican army with his badly trained force.
Why do you think Sam Houston chose to confront the enemy at San Jacinto rather than retreat?
Sam Houston was prepared because, in what became known as the Runaway Scrape, Texans were fleeing their homes out of fear as Santa Anna raced across the state of Texas destroying everything in its path.
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