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Thirty-two to sixty men from Gonzales of the "Gonzales Company of Mounted Volunteers" enter the Alamo at 1:00 A.M. March 2 Texas Declaration of Independence is signed and the Republic of Texas is declared. David G. Burnet is elected at interim president by the delegates. Texians with James Grant are defeated at the Battle of Agua Dulce.
The Alamo Story: From Early History to Current Conflicts. Plano, TX: Republic of Texas Press. ISBN 1-55622-678-0. Fowler, Will (2007). Santa Anna of Mexico. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-5646-0 – via Project MUSE. Graham, Don (July 1985). "Remembering the Alamo: The Story of the Texas Revolution in Popular Culture".
On March 6, Santa Anna ordered an advance on the Alamo; all but a few of the occupants were killed. Susanna Dickinson, the wife of an Alamo occupier, her infant daughter, Angelina, and Joe, a slave of William Barret Travis, were released to tell Sam Houston what had happened. The youngest person in the Alamo was 16 years old.
Georgia Battalion (Georgia Volunteers) (Macon, Georgia) ... The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836: Heroes, ...
Monument to Texas Revolution Georgia Battalion Volunteers, Albany, Texas. [4] Texas Heroes Monument, unveiled April 21, 1900. Galveston, Texas [5] "Come and Take it Monument", 1910. Gonzales, Texas [6] "The Immortal 32", 1936. monument to 32 men from Gonzales who died at the Alamo, as well as the "Survivors of the Alamo Massacre" monument. [7 ...
James Fannin was born on January 1, 1804, in Georgia to Isham Fannin, a plantation owner and veteran of the War of 1812.His mother was not married to his father, and he was adopted by his maternal grandfather, James W. Walker, and raised on a plantation in Marion, Georgia. [1]
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
Benjamin Rush Milam (October 20, 1788 – December 7, 1835) was an American colonist of Mexican Texas and a military leader and hero of the Texas Revolution.A native of what is now Kentucky, Milam fought beside American interests during the Mexican War of Independence and later joined the Texians in their own fight for independence, for which he assumed a leadership role.