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He devoted a chapter to deconstructing Williams' research as "misrepresentation, alteration, and fabrication of data", [23] criticizing the low value she placed on muster rolls as evidence that a man died at the Alamo, and her over-reliance on military land grants, even though the officials who approved the land grants considered the muster ...
When the small party of survivors arrived in Gonzales on March 13 they found Sam Houston, the commander of all Texian forces, waiting there with about 400 men. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] After Dickinson and Joe related the details of the battle and the strength of Santa Anna's army, Houston advised all civilians to evacuate [ 18 ] and then ordered the army ...
the volunteers departed gonzales on february 25, 1836 to aid the alamo defenders. [1] they arrived at the alamo on march 1, 1836. william e. summers perished at the alamo on march 6, 1836 along with the other men who died for texas independence.
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]
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 ...
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.
Sowell had left San Antonio shortly before the fall of the Alamo, and at first it was believed that he had died there. [1] In his later years, Sowell recalled that his name had once been inscribed among the martyrs, and he claimed to be the only man to live—and see his name among those who died at the Alamo. [16]
Each man was promised about 4,600 acres (1,900 ha) of land as payment. On February 6, he and five other men rode into San Antonio de Bexar and camped just outside the town. The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk depicts Davy Crockett swinging his rifle at Mexican troops who have breached the south gate of the mission.