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Duel of Eagles
, pp. 199–203.
44.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 134–135; Nofi,
The Alamo
, pp. 87, 89.
45.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 134–135.
46.
Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. xiii–xiv; Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 257–258; Matovina,
The Alamo Remembered
, pp. 118–119; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 238–239; Long,
Duel of Eagles
, pp. 33–35.
47.
Derr,
The Frontiersman
, p. 240.
48.
Sutherland Mauscript, CAH; Matovina,
The Alamo Remembered
, p. 7; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 23.
49.
Death Records, San Fernando Church, San Antonio, Texas, Catholic Archives of Texas, Austin, Texas; King,
James Clinton Neill
, p. 90; Perry, ed. and trans.,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, 188; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 20.
50.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH.
51.
Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 140–141.
52.
Hardin,
Texas Iliad
, pp. 120–121; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, p. 34.
53.
Delderfield,
Napoleon’s Marshals
, pp. 12–13, 48; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 118.
54.
Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, p. 43; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 29–30, 43; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 45, 53–54, 60.
55.
William M. Dwyer,
The Day is Ours! November 1776-January 1777: An Inside View of the Battles of Trenton and Princeton
, (New York: Viking Press, 1983), pp. 227–276; Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, p. 37.
56.
Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 7, 257, 261–262; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas,
p.
51; Long,
Duel of Eagles
, pp. 34–35; Walraven and Walraven,
The Magnificent Barbarians
, p. 59.
57.
Richmond Whig
, Richmond, Virginia, April 15, 1836.
58.
James E. Crisp,
Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 62–63; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, pp. 87–88.
59.
Moore,
Savage Frontier
, p. 88; Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, pp. 43–44; Huffines,
The Blood of Noble Men
, pp. 5, 8, 11; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 60–63; Barr,
Texans in Revolt
, p. 55; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 45; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 95.
60.
Roger Borroel, editor and translator,
Field Reports of the Mexican Army During the Texan War of 1836
, vol. vi, (East Chicago, Indiana: “La Villita Publications,” 2006), p. 27.
61.
Crawford, ed.,
The Eagle
, pp. 26, 50–51.
62.
San Antonio Express
, May 18, 1907;
Memphis Enquirer
, April 12, 1836, Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, p. 8; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, p. 67; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 163.
63.
Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, pp. 43–44; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 61; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 60–63, 67; Zamoyski,
Moscow 1812
, pp. 522–523.
64.
Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 264; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, pp. 56, 91; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 18–19.
65.
Eric Niderost,
“No Mercy!,” Military Heritage
, (February 2004), pp. 60–61; Digby Smith,
Napoleon Against Russia: A Concise History of 1812
, (Barnsley, England: Pen & Sword Military, 2004), p. 156; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 111.
66.
Lack,
The Texas Revolutionary Experience
, pp. xiii–ix, xvi–xxiii, 53–237.
67.
Ibid., pp. 117–118, 120, 126–132, 147, 173.
68.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 127; Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo
, pp. 547–548,
568; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 19–20, 22; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, p. 5.
69.
Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 23.
70.
John Sutherland Manuscript, CAH.
71.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 139.
72.
Ibid., p. 100; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 91–92.
73.
Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, p. 134; Hardin,
Texas Iliad
, pp. 53, 59; Wheelan,
Invading Mexico
, p. 46.
74.
Moore,
Savage Frontier
, p. 88.
75.
Matovina,
The Alamo Remembered
, p. 50; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 127.
76.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p. 349; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 20, 22.
77.
Chariton,
Exploring the Alamo Legends
, p. 240.
78.
Michener,
The Eagle and Raven
, pp. 112–113, 141–142; Hansen,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 20, 22.
79.
Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, p. 31; Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, p. 22.
80.
Maryland Gazette
, November 5, 1835.
81.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, pp. 92, 126–126.
82.
Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, p. 16; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 78, 85–86.
83.
Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, pp. 12, 119; King,
James Clinton Neill
, pp. 76, 78, 85–86, 97–100; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Stand
, p. 114; Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, 88.
84.
Barr,
Texans in Revolt
, pp. 45–56; Hansen, ed.,
The Alamo Reader
, pp. 15, 18, 22.
Chapter 5: AN INEFFECTIVE SIEGE
1.
Copeland,
Kendall of the Picayune
, p. 56.
2.
Woolsey, trans.,
Memoirs For the History of the War in Texas
, p. 42.
3.
Lindley,
Alamo Traces
, pp. 330–331.
4.
Gaddy,
Texas in Revolt
, p. 22.
5.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH; Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, pp. 99–101; Lozano,
Viva Tejas
, pp. i–ii; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign in Texas
, p. 34.
6.
Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, pp. 99–101; Tim J. and Terry S. Todish,
Alamo Sourebook 1836: A Comprehensive Guide to the Alamo and the Texas Revolution
(Austin: Eakin Press, 1998), pp. 42, 65.
7.
Derr,
The Frontiersman
, p. 246; Levy,
American Legend
, p. 271; De Bruhl,
Sword of San Jacinto
, pp. 108, 119; Shackford,
David Crockett
, pp. 223–226; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 355–356; Davis,
Lone Star Rising
, p. 229; Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo
, p. 547; Lindley,
Alamo Traces
, pp. 1–25; Walker,
The Life of Andrew Jackson
, p. xv; Lyman C. Draper,
King’s Mountain and Its Heroes
, (Johnson City, Tennessee: The Overmountain Press, 1996), pp. 139–141, 157–159, 200; Bruce Marshall,
Uniforms of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution
, (Atglen, Pennsylvania: Schiffer Military History, 2003), pp. 6–7, 14; Perry, ed. and trans,
With Santa Anna in Texas
, pp. 7–8; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, pp. 107–108.
8.
Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 271; Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 148.
9.
Davis,
Lone Star Rising
, pp. 229–230.
10.
Ibid., pp. 229–230; Lindley,
Alamo Traces
, pp. 1–25.
11.
Ibid., p. 135.
12.
Levy,
American Legend
, p. 275; Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo
, pp. 548–551; Lindley,
Alamo Traces
, pp. 1–25.
13.
Lindley,
Alamo Traces
, pp. 1–25.
14.
Jackson,
Alamo Legacy
, p. 30.
15.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH; Morris,
Savage Frontier
, pp. 91–92, 97–98; Bradfield,
Rx Take One Cannon
, p. 23; Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, p. 70; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, p. 13.
16.
Motovina,
The Alamo Remembered
, p. 51.
17.
Scheina,
Santa Anna
, pp. 28–29; Brown,
The New Orleans Greys
, p. 74; Robert Forczyk,
Toulon
1793: Napoleon’s first Great Victory
, (Oxford, United Kingdom: Osprey Publishing Limited, 2005), pp. 7–85; Robert Harvey,
The War of Wars: The Great European Conflict
, 1793–1815, (New York: Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2006), pp. 63–67; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp.
34, 68; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, p. 170.
18.
Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 67–68.
19.
Maryland Gazette
, September 5, 1776; Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo
, pp. 35–36; Hopewell,
James Bowie
, pp. 1–2;
Maryland Gazette
, September 12, 1776; Smith,
New York 1776
, pp. 42–46; Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, p. 21.
20.
Davis,
Three Roads to the Alamo
, p. 12;
The Royal Gazette
, New York, February 24, 1781.
21.
McDonald,
William Barret Travis
, pp. 22–24; Boatner,
Encyclopedia of the American Revolution
, pp. 804–808.
22.
Helen Litton,
Irish Rebellions
, 1798–1916, (Niwot: Colorado: The Irish American Book Company, 1998), pp. 7–51, 122; Thomas Pakenham,
The Year of Liberty: The Great Irish Rebellion of 1789
, (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997), pp. 40–81; Thomas Bartlett, Kevin Dawson, and Daire Keogh,
The 1798 Rebellion: An Illustrated History
, (Niwot, Colorado: Roberts Rhinehart Publishers, 1998), pp. 128–134; Bernard A. Cook,
Women and War: A Historical Encyclopedia from Antiquity to the Present, Volume Two
, (2 vols., Oxford, England: ABC CLIO, Inc., 2006), pp. 644–645; Michael Kenny,
The 1798 Rebellion: Photographs and Memorabilia from the National Museum of Ireland
, (Dublin, Ireland: Country House, 1996), pp. 25, 38–39; Charles Murphy,
The Irish in the American Revolution
, (Groveland, Massachusetts: Charles Murphy Publications, 1975), pp. 1–99; Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, pp. 88–89.
23.
Fowler,
Santa Anna of Mexico
, pp. 21, 174–175; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, p. 35.
24.
Nofi,
The Alamo
, pp. 103–106; Winders,
Sacrificed at the Alamo
, p. 115; Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. 69–70: Rene Chartrand,
Santa Anna’s Mexican Army 1821–48
, (Oxford, England: Osprey Publishing Limited, 2004), pp. 64–65; DePalo,
The Mexican National Army
, p. 51.
25.
Levy,
American Legend
, p. 173; Groneman,
Eyewitness to the Alamo
, p. 10.
26.
New York Herald
, April 12, 1836; Gaddy,
Texas in Revolt
, p. 49.
27.
The Telegraph and Texas Register
, February 20, 1836.
28.
Moore,
Savage Frontier
, pp. 69–70.
29.
Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p. 309.
30.
Garrett,
Green Flag over Texas
, p. 181.
31.
Davis,
Lone Star Rising
, pp. 88–89, 126–127.
32.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH; Hardin,
Texian Iliad
, p. 42; Hansen, ed,
The Alamo Reader
, p. 157.
33.
Roberts and Olson,
A Line in the Sand
, p. 109.
34.
Santos,
Santa Anna’s Campaign Against Texas
, pp. i 11.
35.
Ibid., p.11
36.
Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 38–41, 43, 49–52; Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, pp. 115–116.
37.
Walker,
The Life of Andrew Jackson
, pp. Lxxiii–lxxv.
38.
Boyd,
The Texas Revolution
, pp. 29, 59.
39.
Levy,
American Legend
, pp. 39–40.
40.
Stephenson,
Texas and the Mexican War
, p. 29; Groneman,
Alamo Defenders
, pp. 9, 50, 89, 120; Lord,
A Time to Stand
, p. 125.
41.
Garrett,
Green Flag over Texas
, pp. 178–237; Woolsey, trans,
Memoirs For the History of the War in Texas
, pp. 21–33; Bradfield,
Rx Take One Cannon
, 99–100, 103.
42.
Woolsey, trans.,
Memoirs For the History of the War in Texas
, p. 33.
43.
Brands,
Lone Star Nation
, p.349; McDonald,
William Barret Travis
, p. 86; Hopewell,
James Bowie
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