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The following sketch shows that in effect the two armies were basically confined to a piece of land with no escape route.

General Houston and his men followed Santa Anna all across Texas, but when they got here, both armies had climbed into the ring.


16 posted on 03/21/2010 8:42:21 AM PDT by GregoTX (Beans, Bullets, Batteries.)
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To: GregoTX

Thanks for the photo’s. Great view of the monument with lay of the land.


17 posted on 03/21/2010 8:49:34 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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folks forget, well Texans do not but, after the battle at the Alamo,SantaAna ordered his men to dismember and set fire to the dead and wounded.

Makes me weep just typing this


19 posted on 03/21/2010 9:10:23 AM PDT by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquers Czar)
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