Santa Anna's account of the battle of the Alamo... Fannin's defeat at Coleto...
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May 10, 1836
THE GLOBE, Washington, D.C., May 10, 1836.
* Battle of the Alamo
* James Walker Fannin Jr.
* Santa Anna account of battle
Half a column on pg. 3 is taken up with a report headed: "Mexican Account of Transactions In Texas" which includes in part:
* ...Santa Anna, in his dispatch to the Mexican Secretary of War, states that he stormed the Alamo with 1400 infantry. The assault was given at five in the morning & he thus describes it:...
and what follows is his account of the battle of the Alamo, reading in part:
* The spectacle which this conflict exhibited was extraordinary...They behaved like valiant men & deserve the consideration of the Supreme government...The fortress at length remained in our power...We buried in the ditches & trenches more than 600 bodies...these endeavoring to escape the bayonets of the infantry, fell beneath the sabres of our cavalry...I feel assured that very few have escaped to inform their companions of the result. Amongst the dead were found...Bowie and Travis, colonels...Crockett, another of the same stamp & the rest of their leaders...(see photos for the full report).
As if this was not sufficient for one newspaper, immediately following this report is an account of the battle of Coleto in which James Fannin surrendered. Included in this report are the: "Articles of Capitulation Proposed by Fannin" signed by James Fannin & others, with the signed response of the Mexican general Jose Urrea (see).
Complete in 4 pages, a bit irregular at the spine, some loss to the right margins affecting some text on pages 1 & 2 only but not remotely close to the mentioned reports.
* Battle of the Alamo
* James Walker Fannin Jr.
* Santa Anna account of battle
Half a column on pg. 3 is taken up with a report headed: "Mexican Account of Transactions In Texas" which includes in part:
* ...Santa Anna, in his dispatch to the Mexican Secretary of War, states that he stormed the Alamo with 1400 infantry. The assault was given at five in the morning & he thus describes it:...
and what follows is his account of the battle of the Alamo, reading in part:
* The spectacle which this conflict exhibited was extraordinary...They behaved like valiant men & deserve the consideration of the Supreme government...The fortress at length remained in our power...We buried in the ditches & trenches more than 600 bodies...these endeavoring to escape the bayonets of the infantry, fell beneath the sabres of our cavalry...I feel assured that very few have escaped to inform their companions of the result. Amongst the dead were found...Bowie and Travis, colonels...Crockett, another of the same stamp & the rest of their leaders...(see photos for the full report).
As if this was not sufficient for one newspaper, immediately following this report is an account of the battle of Coleto in which James Fannin surrendered. Included in this report are the: "Articles of Capitulation Proposed by Fannin" signed by James Fannin & others, with the signed response of the Mexican general Jose Urrea (see).
Complete in 4 pages, a bit irregular at the spine, some loss to the right margins affecting some text on pages 1 & 2 only but not remotely close to the mentioned reports.
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