Jim Bowie
This word is a brass wind instrument, similar to a trumpet, used in the military
What is bugle?
This word means to openly resist or disobey.
What is defied?
This is the word for a roughly built hut or cabin.
What are shacks?
This is the word for a building used to house military personnel.
What are barracks?
This word means food and supplies.
What are provisions?
This word means a situation with no expectation of success; without hope.
What is hopeless?
This word means to fall down or break apart suddenly?
What is collapsed?
This is a word for explosive powder used in guns and cannons.
What is gunpowder?
These are long pointed weapons with a shaft of wood and a pointed head made of metal or stone.
What are spears?
This word means additional people sent to increase strength.
What are reinforcements?
This word means people that are citizens of the same country.
What are compatriots?
This is the word for a small printed sheet or flyer.
What is a handbill?
This word means having less than the enemy.
What is outnumbered?
This is what the Texian lookout rang to signal that the enemy was in sight.
What is a church bell?
This is the color of the flag Santa Anna raised that meant "no mercy."
What is red?
This is how Travis signaled that the men at the Alamo were ready to fight.
What is fired an 18 pound cannon?
Who was James Fannin?
This is the phrase Travis signed at the end of his letter begging for more reinforcements.
What is victory or death?
This is the number of men who came to help as reinforcements at the Alamo.
What is 32?
This is how Santa Anna's army kept the men at the Alamo awake all night.
What is playing the bugle?
This is the jewelry that William B. Travis gave to Almeron Dickinson's baby.
What is a ring?
What is the Alamo?
This is how David Crockett tried to keep spirits up.
What is played the fiddle?
This is the other instrument that someone else played while David Crockett played his fiddle.
What are bagpipes?
This man had a secret order to blow up the gunpowder at the front of the church when the Alamo was overrun by the Mexican army.
Who was Robert Evans?