Volume 18 , Issue 40

Fall of San Antonio & Massacre of the Texan Troops

From The Pittsburgh Gazette, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 14 April 1836, Thursday, page 2, we find this mention of "The War In Texas, and the Fall of San Antonio and Massacre of the Texan Troops."

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It appears The New Orleans Bulletin of the 28th March had the following disastrous intelligence from Texas. The assault which resulted int he recapture of San Antonio by the Mexican troops was led in person by Gen. Santa Anna:

Important From Texas
The following important documents were placed in the hands by a gentleman just arrived from Texas. The informant met the express bearing the news he had been given, and from him procured copies to be published for the information of the people on this side of the Sabine, whose relations and friends, kin and countrymen, were then the victims of Mexican barbarity. Col. Bowie, it was said, shot himself - and Col. Travis stabbed himself, to escape the cruelties of the enemy. Nobly they fought; dearly they sold their lives; but none escaped of the whole garrison of San Antonio.
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