Editing Battle of San Jacinto (section)

===Military===
[[File: Last Known Texian Veterans of the Texas Revolution (2).jpg|thumb|April 21, 1906, Army of the Republic of Texas veteran reunion. L–R are William P. Zuber, John W. Darlington, Aca C. Hill, Stephen F. Sparks, L. T. Lawlor, and [[Alfonso Steele]]. All participated in the Battle of San Jacinto, as well as other skirmishes.<ref>Moore (2004) p. 242</ref>]]
When Mexican authorities received word of Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto, flags across the country were lowered to half staff and draped in mourning.<ref name=henderson103>Henderson (2008), p. 103.</ref> Denouncing any agreements signed by a prisoner, Mexican authorities refused to recognize the Republic of Texas.<ref name=davis288/> Filisola was derided for leading the retreat and was replaced by Urrea. Within months, Urrea gathered 6,000 troops in Matamoros, poised to reconquer Texas. His army was redirected to address continued federalist rebellions in other regions.<ref name=davis289>Davis (2006), p. 289.</ref>

All the Mexican soldiers' bodies lay where they were killed for years or decades after the battle. Houston and Santa Anna both refused to order their soldiers to bury the dead so they lay on the property of Margaret "Peggy" McCormick who owned the land where the battle took place. Houston refused to bury the bodies because the Mexicans cremated all of the executed fallen Texan soldiers at Goliad and the Alamo and Santa Anna for some unknown reason refused to order his soldiers, now prisoners of war, to bury their fallen comrades. McCormick asked Houston in-person to bury the now rotting Mexican corpses, but Houston simply responded that she should be honored that her property is now the site of the battle that won Texan independence. Her family buried a few of the corpses but hundreds of them were never located by them. Many years later the corpses, now skulls and skeletons, were buried in a large trench on the battlefield site but nobody knows to the present day where the mass burial site is located.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thealamo.org/remember/stories-of-texas-women/peggy-mccormick |title=Peggy McCormick |website=www.thealamo.org |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/mccormick-margaret |title=TSHA &#124; McCormick, Margaret |website=www.tshaonline.org |access-date=July 20, 2021}}</ref><ref>"Dunn, Jeff. "The Mexican Soldier Skulls of San Jacinto Battleground". The Friends of the San Jacinto Battleground. April 1, 2010</ref>

Most in Texas assumed the Mexican army would return quickly.<ref name=lack201/> Such a large number of American volunteers flocked to the Texian army in the months after the victory at San Jacinto that the Texian government was unable to maintain an accurate list of enlistments.<ref name=davis291>Davis (2006), p. 291.</ref> Out of caution, Béxar remained under martial law throughout 1836. Rusk ordered that all ''Tejanos'' in the area between the Guadalupe and Nueces rivers migrate either to east Texas or to Mexico.<ref name=lack201>Lack (1992), p. 201.</ref> Some residents who refused to comply were forcibly removed. New American settlers moved in and used threats and legal maneuvering to take over the land once owned by ''Tejanos''.<ref name=davis288>Davis (2006), p. 288.</ref><ref name=lack206>Lack (1992), p. 206.</ref> Over the next several years, hundreds of ''Tejano'' families resettled in Mexico.<ref name=davis288/>

For years, Mexican authorities used the reconquering of Texas as an excuse for implementing new taxes and making the army the budgetary priority of the impoverished nation.<ref name=vazquez315/> Only sporadic skirmishes resulted.<ref name=henderson125>Henderson (2008), p. 125.</ref> Larger expeditions were postponed as military funding was consistently diverted to other rebellions, out of fear that those regions would ally with Texas and further fragment the country.<ref name=vazquez315>Vazquez (1985), p. 315.</ref><ref group=Note>New Mexico, Sonora, and California revolted unsuccessfully; their stated goals were a change in government, not independence. Henderson (2008), p. 100. Vazquez (1985), p. 318.</ref> The northern Mexican states, the focus of the [[Matamoros Expedition]], briefly launched an independent [[Republic of the Rio Grande]] in 1839.<ref name=reid169>Reid (2007), p. 169.</ref> The same year, the Mexican Congress considered a law to declare it treasonous to speak positively of Texas.<ref name=henderson123>Henderson (2008), p. 123.</ref>  In June 1843, leaders of the two nations declared an armistice.<ref name=henderson127>Henderson (2008), p. 127.</ref>