Sections 3
Sam Houston was alarmed that the Texas army was so ill prepared and disorganized. He sent ________ to San Antonio to evaluate the situation there
james Jim Bowie
He ordered that a large ________ be raised so the defenders within the Alamo could see it. This “no quarter” flag meant that Santa Anna would leave no survivors. The siege of the Alamo was underway.
Blood-Red Flag
In addition, the Texans there had access to weapons left by Cos and his army. In addition, the Alamo was strategically located along the ________ —one of the two major routes through Texas.
Old San Antonio Road
On ________ , Mexican forces began firing on the Alamo. That day Travis wrote a plea “To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World.” The letter was a request for aid in the face of certain death.
February 24
When Smith received Bowie’s letter, he decided to send reinforcements to San Antonio. He ordered Colonel ________ to raise a force and assist Bowie. However, _________ could gather only 30 soldiers.
William B. Travis
Travis sent out several more requests for help. Bonham left to find aid for the Alamo, only to sneak back in on March 3. Who also sneaked past the Mexican troops to request help from Goliad?
Juan Seguín
_________ led a dozen Tennessee volunteers into San Antonio a few days after Travis arrived.
Davy Crockett
Led by Captain ________ , they crept in under cover of early morning darkness. There would be no other help.
Albert Martin
_________ and a volunteer force from Alabama called the Mobile Grays also joined the Texas defenders.
James Bonham
In the early morning hours of ______ the Texas defenders were awakened suddenly. They heard shouts from Mexican soldiers and the sound of music.
March 6
At the same time Davy Crockett was writing his letter to his children, Mexican forces were marching on Texas. Led by_______ himself, these troops were determined to punish Texans for their rebellion.
Santa Anna
James Bonham and a volunteer force from Alabama called the _________ also joined the Texas defenders.
Mobile Grays
Santa Anna’s army band was playing what song? The song meant that no mercy would be shown.
El Degüello
By February 1836, how many soldiers in Santa Anna’s army had and was well on its way to San Antonio?
6,000
__________, a 29-year-old lawyer, was in charge of strengthening the plaza walls. He and the other defenders built up some of the walls to 12 feet high and 2 feet thick.
Green Jameson
As the smoke cleared, almost all the defenders were dead. Among those killed were all the leaders of the defenders, including Travis, Crockett, Bowie, and Bonham. Also among the dead were several Tejano defenders, including Juan Abamillo, Juan A. Badillo, Carlos Espalier, José María Esparza, Antonio Fuentes, Damacio Jiménez, José Toribio Losoya, and Andrés Nava. Accounts of Mexican losses vary, but there were about 600 Mexican ______/_____ are those killed, wounded, captured, or missing during battle.
Casualties
Mexican General _______ was headed toward Goliad along the Gulf Coast with another army.
José de Urrea
Jameson directed the building of _________ —high fences made of stakes—behind which soldiers could fight. He also worked with artillery officer Almaron Dickinson to choose locations for the fort’s 21 cannons.
Palisades
One of the survivors was ______, wife of Almaron Dickinson, and her daughter Angelina. Other survivors were Ana Salazar Esparza, wife of José María Esparza, and her children. Santa Anna also spared a slave named Joe and several other noncombatants, or people not involved in fighting.
Susanna Dickinson
Colonel________ had just over 100 troops in San Antonio.
James Neill
He also worked with artillery officer ________ to choose locations for the fort’s 21 cannons. Even with such improvements, the Alamo would be difficult to defend without more troops
Almaron Dickinson
Santa Anna also spared a slave named Joe and several other ________ , or people not involved in fighting. Many of these blank had entered the Alamo looking for safety from the approaching Mexican army. Despite the brutality of the attack, most—but not all—of these blank survived.
Noncombatants
About 400 more soldiers were in Goliad under the command of Colonel _________.
James Fannin
The area enclosed by the two buildings and walls of the Alamo was about three acres, and would require about 1,000 soldiers to defend it properly. The Texas soldiers in the Alamo at this time numbered little more than ________.
150
General Santa Anna believed that the fall of the Alamo would convince Texans to surrender. In a letter, he wrote that he had achieved “a complete and glorious triumph.” Instead, the Alamo became a symbol to many Texans that they must fight on at any cost. ________ became a rallying cry for the Texan army.
Remember the Alamo