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March 6 Travis's March 3 plea reaches Washington on the Brazos. Houston and his staff head for Gonzales. Battle of the Alamo: the Alamo falls. Approximately 180-250 Texians, Tejanos, and Anglos die. The thirteen-day siege resulted in the deaths of all of its defenders, including William B. Travis, David Crockett, and Jim Bowie.
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The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution.Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States).
When the Battle of the Alamo ended at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 6, 1836, fewer than fifty of the almost 260 Texians who had occupied the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas, were alive. [1]
Texas Independence Day is the celebration of the adoption of the Texas Declaration of Independence on March 2, 1836. With this document, signed by 59 delegates, settlers in Mexican Texas officially declared independence from Mexico and created the Republic of Texas .
Tabler is set to be executed at 7 p.m. ET, one hour after the 6 p.m. execution of James Dennis Ford in Florida. They're set to become the nation's fourth and fifth executions this year.