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Below are 215 known combatants: 193 who died during the siege, 31 survivors, and one escapee who later died of his wounds. Mexican Colonel Juan Almonte, Santa Anna's aide-de-camp, recorded the Texian fatality toll as 250 in his March 6 journal entry. He listed the survivors as five women, one Mexican soldier and one slave.
José Gregorio Esparza (February 25, 1802 – March 6, 1836), also known as Gregorio Esparza, was the last Texan defender to enter the Alamo during the early days of March 1836 in the Siege of the Alamo [1] and was the only one that was not burned in the pyres. He had brought his family into the Alamo compound along with him.
Death of a Legend: The Myth and Mystery Surrounding the Death of Davy Crockett Republic of Texas Press 1999 OCLC 45733790 ISBN 978-1-55622-688-5 [38] Bill Groneman: David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man Forge Books 2007 OCLC 58919622 ISBN 978-0-7653-1067-5 [39] Herbert L. Harper: Houston and Crockett: Heroes of Tennessee and Texas: An Anthology.
In early 1836, he took part in the Texas Revolution and died at the Battle of the Alamo. It is unclear whether he died in battle or was executed after being captured by the Mexican Army. [2] [3] [4] Crockett became famous during his lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs. After his death, he continued to ...
Andrew Jackson Sowell (June 27, 1815 – January 4, 1883) was a lifelong soldier and farmer in the 19th century. He was a participant in the Texas Revolution and a survivor of the siege of the Alamo.
Susanna was born c. 1814 in Williamson County, Tennessee, and apparently never learned to read or write. She married Almaron Dickinson on May 24, 1829, when she was 15 years old. After acquiring land along the San Marcos River , the couple became DeWitt Colonists two years later.
Although Albert Martin's body was likely burned and his ashes scattered in Texas by the Mexican troops, the cenotaph memorializes his death at the Martin family plot in Providence. A later plaque at the Alamo incorrectly stated that Martin was from Tennessee. [10] In 2012 Albert Martin was inducted in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. [11]
Davy Crockett (1786–1836), frontiersman and U.S. Congressman from Tennessee, died at Alamo; Almaron Dickinson (1800–1836), Texian soldier, died at Alamo; James Fannin (c. 1804–1836), key figure during Texas Revolution; Thomas Green (1814–1864), artillery officer at San Jacinto, brigadier general in Confederate Army