![]() Juan Seguín protested the order to Sam Houston, and the city was saved. One surprise in the book: San Antonio was ordered destroyed in January 1837 by the Texas “high command” so it wouldn't be a magnet for another Mexican military invasion. The Alamo commander's body was shown to Santa Anna with “a hole in his forehead.” Wouldn't a ball from a Mexican musket done more damage than “a hole”? Tucker's book is not listed in Donovan's bibliography.ĭonovan makes no determination about Bowie's death in his sickbed, and the author could have explored Travis' death more. A 2010 book, “Exodus from the Alamo” by Phillip Thomas Tucker, contends that between 100 and 120, or most of the Texas defenders, died outside the compound's walls in desperate escape attempts. ![]() In the book's footnotes, Donovan cites one Mexican officer's account that two other outbreaks occurred as well. The Texans escaped to the south and southeast from a gate in the wooden palisade, only to be cut down by mounted Mexican lancers. 1 pickĭonovan does write, however, that a band of more than 60 defenders died outside the walls of the Alamo.
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