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4 pages in length, this historical essay describes the events surrounding the Texas Revolution, especially how subsequent battles were affected by the Battle of the Alamo. The Massacre at Goliad and the Battle of San Jacinto are highlighted, as well as a description of events surrounding the Battle of the Alamo. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the nearby trees. It was siesta time in Tejas. Concealed on a ridge above the encampment, a ragged band of men lay watching. Restless from days of inactivity,
every muscle was now tensed, every heartbeat quicker. Earlier, as they watched General Lopez de Santa Anna retire to his striped tent with the mulatto girl, they had turned
their eyes in anticipation to their leader (Biffle 45A). No signal. Patience thinning, they had watched as the last of the Mexican soldiers entered their tents, leaving only
the still silence and a scattering of posted guards in their wake. Still no signal. As doubts concerning their leaders strategy began to rekindle, the signal finally came.
With five words, this leader led his ragtag band of rebels down the hillside and into the slumbering encampment below. "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" rang out in the
stillness as Sam Houston and his men stormed the camp of Santa Anna, capturing the Mexican general and forever claiming Texas as their own (Cline 41A). This battle, the Battle
of San Jacinto, the final in a series of battles Texas fought in her struggle for independence, 2 is said to have lasted only eighteen minutes (Clancy 22). The
fury of those eighteen minutes of fighting, however, stemmed from the courage of thirteen days in which 189 brave souls fought for Texas to the death. This revolution was not
what Stephen F. Austin had planned when he brought his original 300 colonists into the Mexican territory of Tejas in 1821. He dreamed of a Tejas existing in harmony
with its mothering country of Mexico as he led those first settlers into the wilderness of this new territory (Woolley 1F). This hard, rough country called for rugged, determined
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