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| PRE-DAWN FIVE HOUR ASSAULT ON THE ALAMO WAS LED BY
GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA AND 2,000 MEXICAN SOLDIERS. FOR THIRTEEN DAYS, A HANDFULL OF MEN DEFENDED THE ALAMO. BEFORE DAWN ON MARCH 6, 1836, 189 ALAMO FIGHTING MEN WERE DEAD. TWELVE SURVIVORS HID IN FEAR INSIDE THE 4.2 ACRE COMPOUND: SEVEN WERE SMALL CHILDREN, THEIR MOTHERS, AND ONE ELDERLY MAN. MORE THAN 500 MEXICAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED. SIX WEEKS AFTER THE ALAMO SLAUGHTER, GENERAL SAM HOUSTON DEFEATED GENERAL SANTA ANNA AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. THE INFAMOUS CRY WAS SOUNDED ON THAT DAY "REMEMBER THE ALAMO." THE MASONS DAVY CROCKETT, JAMES BOWIE, WILLIAM TRAVIS, JAMES BONHAM, AND ALMERON DICKENSON. "COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FOR LIBERTY." MEXICAN GENERAL SANTA ANNA BURNED THESE MENS BODIES INSTEAD OF BURYNG THEM. THIS ATROCITY OUTRAGED GENERAL SAM HOUSTON. HE VOWED THAT "THE MEXICAN" WOULD BE AS DESECRATED AS HE DONE TO THESE VALOROUS MEN. GENERAL SANTA ANNA WAS LITERALLY CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. HE PAID FOR THE DESECRATION OF DEAD HEROES AT "THE ALAMO." |
