. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. F OLD VERAMEXDI PALACE, WITH BULLET AND CAWON SHOT SCARSMADE DURING THE CAPTURE OF SAN ANTONIO BY BEN TROOPS WHO BY ASSAULTTOOK THE CITY FROM SANTA ANNAS FAVORITE|gENERAL, COS. THEY ARE NOW IN THEPOSSESSION OF F. F. COLLINS. San Antonio had several minor skirmishes to occur nearit during the struggle incident to the war between Spain andMexico for the independence of the latter from the formerwhen the grand patriot priest, Miguel Hidalgo, raised the sa-cred standard of liberty. But the great and memorable, as well as the most sangui-nary of
. Combats and conquests of immortal heroes. F OLD VERAMEXDI PALACE, WITH BULLET AND CAWON SHOT SCARSMADE DURING THE CAPTURE OF SAN ANTONIO BY BEN TROOPS WHO BY ASSAULTTOOK THE CITY FROM SANTA ANNAS FAVORITE|gENERAL, COS. THEY ARE NOW IN THEPOSSESSION OF F. F. COLLINS. San Antonio had several minor skirmishes to occur nearit during the struggle incident to the war between Spain andMexico for the independence of the latter from the formerwhen the grand patriot priest, Miguel Hidalgo, raised the sa-cred standard of liberty. But the great and memorable, as well as the most sangui-nary of all the sieges and struggles of San Antonio,were those Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes 17 from 1835 to 1836. These were the engagements between theTexas forces under Ben Milam and the Mexicans under Cos,when Milams men wrested the city from the grasp of the dic-tators myrmidons after Milam, their leader, was slain in De-cember, 1835. This was a most brilliant other was the entire extirpation of the dauntless defen-. OLD TUNSTALL HOMESTEAD WHICH STOOD BY THE FORMER SITE OF THE FAMOUS MOLINGBLANCO. IT WAS THE HOME OF MRS. HENRY P. DROUGHT WHO LIVES NEAR THERE. ders of the Alamo by the overwhelming hordes of the direand dread dictator, Santa Anna, in February and the forepart of March, 1836, when none were left to tell the tale. Austin, Burleson and several other Constitutionalist offi-cers had their force of from 1,500 to 1,800 men camped nearthe head of the vSan Antonio river and along its banks downto where the old Molino Blanco, or famous White Mill stood,this mill at that time being the headquarters of the comman-ders, the time being the winter of 1835. There the force had
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