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Battle of Gonzales
Domingo de Ugartechea, a military commander sent 100 men to retrieve a small cannon from the Texans but when they reached to their path they found it blocked by high water. The Texans refused so they got the cannon and started to fire but they didn't have any cannonballs so they used metal scraps instead and fired. On Oct 2, they attacked the Mexicans and they were outnumbered by them so the withdraw from the war. -
Battle of Goliad
In September Texans wanted to capture Gen Martin Perfecto de Cos In the morning, Texas settlers attacked Mexican troops at the La Bahia presidio. -
San Antonio
The Texans didn't know how to move on from the grass fight, many wanted to attack San Antonio, others wanted to leave San Antonio to Texas and the rest just wanted to go home. Ben Milam encouraged them to go to war with Mexico, so it started early on Dec 5. The Mexicans were startled because they didn't except it, while they were fighting on the 4th day Ben Milam was killed. After that Cos and his men were never seen again at the Alamo. -
Runaway Scrape
When Sana Anna arrived in Texas settlers were scared that they would get caught by him and executed. Americans/Texans fled their homes because of that. Their goal was to cross the Sabine River but women and children got terribly sick and some died. -
Siege of the Alamo
Texans immediately started reinforcing and fortifying the Alamo. Sam Houston attempted to get men from San Antonio to his army but the declined. The Texans saw the Alamo as the key and they would give up their lives instead of giving up their position to Santa Anna. When they got their they caught the Texans by surprise,the siege lasted for 13 days. -
Texas Declaration of Independence
While Santa Anna was attacking the Alamo George Childs wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence that Declared Texas independent from Mexico in less than 24 hours and then they elected Sam Houston as Commander in chief of theTexas army -
The battle of the Alamo
The attack happened at early in the morning and lasted for about 90 min. After that, the Alamo falls and the defenders die or get executed, officially 185 but got raised to 257. The woman were spared so they could go give a message to Sam Houston. -
The Goliad Massacre
