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battle ot the alamo fall.
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Mar 2, 1836 - The Convention stays and finishes the Declaration of Independence, to be signed on March 2, 1836, all the delegates sign the document, including General Houston . Houston and a small force begin the march to the Alamo, arriving at Gonzales
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Neill put together a force of 50 men and with Edward Burleson took the road west to San Antonio on March 7
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RUNAWAY SCRAPE
SAM HOUSTON ISSUED ORDERS NEIL, TO COMMAND GONZALES TO EVACUTE SLAVES -
. After two hours of combat, on May 12 1835, Santa Anna's "Army of Operations" defeated the Zacatecan militia and took almost 3,000 prisoners which he summarily executed
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GONZALES BURNED AS THE RUNWAY SCRAPE BEGINS.
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Santa Anna to suspend the return of the cavalry to Mexico, and to direct General Sesma, by an order, dated the 25th of March, to change his course, after crossing the Colorado at Bastrop, to San Felipe
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Mar 17, 1836 - He remained at the convention and was elected interim president on March 17, 1836. On his orders, the government fled Washington-on-the-Brazos for Harrisburg , thus inspiring the Runaway Scrape
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Mar 20, 1836 - From Gonzales, the Texas army began a long journey that was to become known in history as the “Runaway Scrape
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On the morning of the 27th of March, a Mexican officer came to us and ordered us to get ready for a march.
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On March 29 Santa Anna, with the main body of the army, left San Antonio and headed east to Gonzales intending to find and defeat the Texian Army.
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The small garrison remanied at San Felipe to defend the crossing orded the town evacuted and burned and burn to keep it from falling.
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Apr 6, 2003 - The term "Runaway Scrape" makes what these people endured sound contemptible and trivial, but it was neither
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Apr 7, 1836 - During the Runaway Scrape Daniel's family fled to the far side of the Brazos River while Daniel, Thomas, and Joshua acted as scouts for Maj. Robert M.+
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On April 12 the Texican Army took to the roads again, heading east toward Harrisburg.
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Apr 21, 1836 - By April 21, 1836, hundreds of panicked Texans had crossed the Sabine River on their way to safety in the United States
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On the 24th of March, General Gaona set out for Nacogdoches with the two battalions, two four-pounders, twenty frontier dragoons, and fifty convicts, set apart for his command, the whole amounting to seven hundred and twenty-five men.
