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Partial scan of the March 24, 1836 Telegraph and Texas Register with the first Texian list of defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo. The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution.
As the Mexican Army had approached San Antonio, several of the Alamo defenders brought their families into the Alamo to keep them safe. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During the twelve days of the siege, Alamo co-commander William Barret Travis sent multiple couriers to the acting Texas government , the remaining Texas army under James Fannin , and various Texas ...
William D. Howell (1797–1836) was an American surgeon who died as a defender of the Alamo in 1836. Howell was a medical doctor who was born in Massachusetts in 1797, but lived in New York before traveling to Texas by way of New Orleans in 1835. He came to Texas as a member of Capt. Thomas H. Breece's company of New Orleans Greys.
Completed in 1931, it attempted to positively identify all of the Texians who died during the battle. Her list was used to choose the names carved into the cenotaph memorial in 1936. [31] Several historians, including Thomas Ricks Lindley, Thomas Lloyd Miller, and Richard G. Santos, believe her list included men who had not died at the Alamo. [32]
Albert Martin (January 6, 1808 – March 6, 1836) was a Texian merchant and captain of the Gonzales Mounted Rangers who delivered William B. Travis' letter "To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World" and died while defending the Alamo garrison. He is a member of the Old Eighteen and Immortal 32.
Lindley proposes that 13 men from Chenowith's company may have died at the Alamo mainly because 1) they were noted as killed, and 2) they weren't killed at Goliad. Four of those - M. B. Clark, Dr. E. F. Mitchusson, William A. Moore, and Thomas H. Roberts - are accepted as Alamo defenders by Williams and/or Groneman, TSHA, the thealamo.org web ...
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