. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. onalistsin the Alamo on Wednesday morning February 22, 1836. SantaAnna then sent a messenger to the commander, LieutenantColonel William Barrett Travis, demanding the immediateand unconditional surrender of the Alamo, informing Travisthat all who did not surrender would be put to the Anna offered an armistice of 6 hours for the surrenderand withdrawal of non-combatants. Travis disdained the answer was a well directed cannon shot from the pieceof ordnance that Travis in person was commanding on the topof the Convent portion of th
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. onalistsin the Alamo on Wednesday morning February 22, 1836. SantaAnna then sent a messenger to the commander, LieutenantColonel William Barrett Travis, demanding the immediateand unconditional surrender of the Alamo, informing Travisthat all who did not surrender would be put to the Anna offered an armistice of 6 hours for the surrenderand withdrawal of non-combatants. Travis disdained the answer was a well directed cannon shot from the pieceof ordnance that Travis in person was commanding on the topof the Convent portion of the Alamo. His followers on thetop of the Chapel adjoining it at once nailed the flag of theConstitution of 1824 to the staff so that it could not be low-ered. Travis made an unheeded appeal to Houston and Fanninfor succor. Fannin could not give heed, for his force was thensurrounded by UgarthcBea at Goliadj where it was annihilateda few days after capture. Had he been inclined to do so,Houston was too far away to reach and rescue the Alamos. Combats and Conouests^of T^imortal Heroes 29 beleaguered. Houston believed ^ that Travis and his futileforce should have retreated before the overwhelming hordeof Santa Anna. Houston, himself, had fallen back with his own army beyondthe Colorado river and had even gone beyond the San Jacintobefore making his stand against Santa Anna. It wasthere that Houston had halted and achieved his valiant victory,
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