![]() ![]() San Antonio’s population gradually increased as previous residents returned and new settlers arrived. Rumors of this second campaigned included the Cherokee and Comanche as Mexico’s allies. San Antonio remained largely deserted following Andrade’s departure, owing to the rumors of a renewed Mexican campaign against Texas. The Alamo was completely dismantled, all the single walls were leveled, the fossee filled up, and the pickets torn up and burnt.” The walls of the church being built of solid masonry, of course could not be but little injured by the fire. This was made with wood and was too far consumed for any attempt to be made to extinguish the fire. We found the fire to proceed from a church, where a platform had been built, extending from the great door to the top of the wall on the back side, for the purpose of taking up the artillery to the top of the church. Shackelford and myself, accompanied by Senor Reriz and some of the citizens, walked over to see the state in which they had left it. “As the troops left town this morning, a large fire streamed up from the Alamo, and as soon as they had fairly left Dr. They are now busy as bees, soldiers, convicts and all, tearing down the walls &c.” Several days later Barnard further reported, Barnard, an American doctor spared execution at Goliad and sent to San Antonio to care for wounded Mexican soldiers there, noted in his journal on May 22 that, “General Andrade has received orders to destroy the Alamo. Before he left, though, he destroyed all of the fortification at the Alamo. Andrade put his men to work doing just that until he received word of Santa Anna’s defeat at San Jacinto and orders to rejoin the main Mexican Army at Matamoros. Santa Anna did not abandon it when he marched east, but instead left 1000 soldiers under General Juan Andrade with orders to repair the Alamo’s battle-scarred fortifications so it could be defended in case of future attacks on the town. San Antonio de Béxar had always been a key town in Texas. Santa Anna and his government planned to drive the American colonists out of Texas and replace them with settlements made up of discharged Mexican soldiers and their families. The war was over and Texas had won.Īs is usually the case, there is more to the story. Charging Texans crying “Remember the Alamo!” routed Santa Anna’s troops in a lopsided battle where they avenged the death of Travis’ small band. ![]() The victorious general marched his army eastward to a fateful meeting with the Texan Army at a place called San Jacinto. Bruce Winders, Former Alamo Director of History and Curatorįor many students who learned about the Battle of the Alamo, the lesson stopped once General Antonio López de Santa Anna attacked the old fortified mission on the morning of Maand put its garrison to the sword. ![]()
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