Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast.

We left the last episode was March 6th, and we were talking about dawn at the Alamo.

The Battle of the Alamo, of course, was a total defeat for the Texians.

Every Anglo male in the fort was put to the sword

just as Santa Ana had promised.

But not every person in the fort was killed.

Several people witnessed the battle and survived.

In this episode, we're going to talk about some of their stories,

so let's go back again to San Antonio de Behar in 1836

and get wise about Texas.

If you listen to the bonus episode that I released on March 6th, you heard the music of

De Guojo, which Santa Ana ordered played as a signal to the Alamo defenders that they would receive no quarter should they refuse to surrender.

Travis answered Santa Ana's demands with a cannon shot and the Texians defended an overwhelming

assault that morning of March 6th, 1836.

And in episode 10 I told you a few folks who were in the fort but weren't combatants.

So let's now jump to the aftermath of the battle and see who was left.

We talked about the relatives of prominent Behar citizen Jose Antonio Navarro,

two daughters, Wanna Alsbury, who was married to a doctor named Horatio

Alsbury, and her sister Gertrutis Navarro. Wanna's son Alejo was

with her and he was an infant at the time of the battle.

Wanna's husband had left the Alamo prior to the battle to scout a location for his family

to move and he'd not returned when the assault occurred.

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