March 4 2015 The Texas Revolution and Victory at San Jacinto The Fall of the Alamo days o Travis appeals for assistance o Santa Anna reaches San Antonio on February 23 1836 and leads a siege for thirteen February 24 1836 To the people of Texas and all Americans in the world I pledge I will never surrender or retreat and I swear victory or death I call on you in the name of liberty to come to our aid with all dispatch 33 men from Gonzales actually do come to their aid Under the leadership of George Kimball However not enough to help defend the Alamo Houston didn t come to the Alamo He wanted to ensure victory and wanted more men o Why the assault on the Alamo Dawn on March 6 1836 A cannon was on its way and they tried to convince Santa Anna to wait for a bit to get it because the wall was crumbling anyway Santa Anna doesn t listen Santa Anna is protecting Mexican territory There was no valid military justification for this move o Travis was one of the first to die and Bowie died as well o The assault on the Alamo lasted no more than 90 minutes o The number of defenders of the Alamo that are written down is officially 189 Ongoing research may make that number closer to 250 o Santa Anna Number of Mexican soldiers killed was about 600 o Santa Anna treated every woman and child with admiral gallantry He allowed them safe passage through his lines We think some males may have survived but children Each woman and child was provided with a blanket and some money o Travis made a speech about how the men were allowed to stay or go because no one is Fact or Fiction coming to save them Louis Moses Rose Allegedly left the Alamo before the siege began Reaches the Zuber ranch Told the story of the line in the sand o Travis drew a line in the sand and asked the men to cross it o Davy Crockett Movie showed Davy Crockett being portrayed in a theatrical performance Dressed up in Western clothing A legend became built around Davy Crockett o He becomes a symbol for the American nation o He is the idealized American male Rugged Individualist Frontiersman Movie showed that he was the last man standing at the Alamo where he talked to the Mexican soldiers and was executed Controversy about how he dies o Other interpretations say that he was fighting and in the midst of the action when he died in the compound In 1834 a picture was taken of Davy Crockett He rejects that all other images of him are really him Says I am happy to acknowledge this to be the only correct likeness that has been taken of me Joe Travis s slave Was able to walk away from the Alamo alive According to his eyewitness account Jose Enrique de la Pena the chapel o He saw Davy Crockett s body lying in the compound in front of A Mexican soldier in Santa Anna s army Kept a diary o Recorded some action of the siege of the Alamo o Publishes an account of what happened at the Alamo According to his eyewitness account o He had seen Crockett surrender and was taken out of the compound and surrendered However Crockett s death was not in his original diary o It was added some years later o Detracts from its credibility Wouldn t he have entered it in his diary if he really had Susanna Dickinson seen it During the action she did not actually witness it o She was shut away in the chapel area o She was allowed out when Santa Anna released the women and children She reports that she saw Davy Crockett s body inside the compound in front of the chapel When questioned she originally gave some information o However as her celebrity grew her story changed Debate over Davy Crockett s death is still ongoing The Loss of South Texas o Johnson and Fannin Sent on the Matamoros expedition Fannin has a quandary He has about 400 men with him at Goliad Should he try to defend Goliad o The armory is at Goliad Or should he march to the aid of the Alamo o The Alamo expected Fannin to arrive at Gonzales In his indecision he tries to do all three Or should he retreat and join the other Texas forces who were gathering o He tries to defend Goliad o Changes his mind and starts going to the Alamo o Changes his mind again and turns around to go to Gonzales Johnson Annihilated at San Patricio on February 27 1836 by Urrea Detachment is about fifty men o The others have gone to Gonzales Surprised by Urrea and his men o All Texans are killed or captured by Urrea apart from Johnson and four of his companions Disgusted with Sam Houston s decision o Called the Runaway Scrape o Johnson quits the Revolution Thinks Houston should have immediately gone to the Alamo s aid Fannin is retreating to Gonzales Met by the Mexican forces at Coleto Prairie March 19 20 Fannin surrenders Fannin s men ask for the terms of surrender to be considered as prisoners of war o However Santa Anna gave orders for no quarter o Urrea could not have accepted anything else besides Fannin s unconditional surrender Urrea took them all back to Goliad Urrea wrote to Santa Anna and asked for clemency o He doesn t want to execute them o Santa Anna bypasses Urrea and orders Jose de la Portilla to carry out the original decree of no quarter Massacre at Goliad o They were to be treated as pirates and executed o Colonel Jose de la Portilla was sent The Convention of 1836 o The men were all shot including Fannin himself o Convenes March 1 at Washington on the Brazos o Official Declaration of Independence will be given on the second of March and is written o Sam Houston is named commander of all Texas troops o Constitution for the new Republic of Texas is drafted and was modeled after the United by George Childress States Constitution Included a declaration of rights Gives conditions and installation for presidency Senate and House of Representatives Included an absolute prohibition for imprisonment for debt Section 9 regards slavery With regards to free African Americans Included no importation of slaves into the new Republic outside of the United States Those held in Texas already would remain in servitude Future immigrants to Texas can bring their slaves with them A free African American could not live in the new Republic without approval of Congress Any slave owner who frees his slaves in the future had to gain approval from Congress as well o Election of a President Ad interim government formed President David G Burnet Vice President Lorenzo de Zavala o Has connections with the Federalist party in Mexico Expects a large force Arrives to find 374 ill equipped badly trained men Sam Houston March 11 1836 o Gonzales
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