March 6,1836...6:30a.m ... last firing is over... The Alamo has fallen!

After a 13 days siege of 2,000 Mexicans, 189 Heroes had offered their lives to insure the freedom of Texas.

The Alamo Garrison
(click here for a map of the area)

• William Barret TRAVIS

  (Commander of the Alamo) : One of the first to fall, he died defending the north wall at an early hour on March 6. He was 26 years old.

• James BOWIE

  (Co-commander of the Alamo): Killed in his bed, where he laid sick with pneumonia, in a small room in the south side. He was 41 years old.

• David (Davy) CROCKETT

  His body was found in small fort in the west side. He was 50 years old.

• 28 Officers
• 30 volunteers from South Carolina (along with William B. Travis)
• 15 volunteers from Tennessee (along with David Crockett)
• 32 volunteers from Gonzales (the only who responded to the repeated appeals for help of Colonel Travis)
• all other volunteers (81) came from different countries (England, Scotland, Germany, Ireland) and from various States.

The Mexicans

• General Antonio Lopez de SANTA ANNA : El Generalissimo
• over 2,000 men (infantry, artillery and cavalry)
• an unknown number of soldaderas (camp followers)

At the end of the Battle of Alamo, Santa Anna's loss was estimated at 600 men.

The Alamo was remembered, as well as the Goliad massacre (perpetrated by order of General Santa Anna), forty-six days later, on April 21, 1836 at the Battle of San Jacinto, where 783 men led by General Sam Houston defeated 1,500 Mexicans.
The battle lasted only eighteen minutes.
When all was over, 630 men of the Mexican army were dead; 730 were prisoners.
Nine Texans lost their lives.

General Santa Anna, disguised as a peasant, was captured the following day.

The independence of Texas was won !

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I wish to express my thanks to The Daughters of the Republic of Texas, whose book "The Alamo - Long Barracks Museum" was used as a precious source of information for the preparation of this page.
Moreover, I have utilized other information selected from the following websites :
Lone Star Junction : A Texas Almanac
The Alamo
The Texas State website
(Congratulations, folks, you have made a terrific job!!)

Additional links of interest :
The Second Flying Company of Alamo de Parras

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