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I am a soldier at the Alamo this would be a pivotal blusht in the Texas Revolution. This would take after a 13-day siege, Me and my fellow Mexican march under President General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna launched an round off on the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Bexar which is outright modern-day San Antonio, Texas, USA. All of the Texans defenders were putting to deathed. Santa Annas perceived hardness during the competitiveness inspired many Texans both Texas settlers and adventurers from the United States to brotherhood the Texan Army.By a desire for strike back the Texans defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, which ending the revolution. just about(prenominal) months previously, Texans had driven wholly Mexican troops out of Mexican Texas. Approximately c Texans were then garris angiotensin converting enzymed at the Alamo. The Texan crowd grew slightly with the arrival of reinforcements led by eventual Alamo co-commanders m ob Bowie and William B. Travis. On February 23, al approximately 1,500 Mexican troops marched into San Antonio de Bexar as the introductory step in a military campaign to re-take Texas. For the next 12 days the twain armies engaged in several skirmishes with tokenish casualties.Aware that his garrison could not withstand an struggle by such a bouffant force, Travis wrote multiple letters pleading for to a greater extent men and supplies, but only fewer than 100 reinforcements would arrive. In the early morn hours of March 6 we would be habituated orders to advance on the Alamo. after(prenominal) repulsing dickens attacks, Texans were ineffective to fend off a third attack. As a Mexican soldier I scaled the walls, most of the Texan soldiers withdrew into interior structures. Defenders unable to guide these points were slain by the Mexican gymnastic horse as they attempted to escape.Between five and seven-spot Texans may have surrendered if so, they were quickly execu ted. approximately eyewitnesses and myself could remember that between 182 and 257 Texans died, while most historians of the Alamo agree that between 400600 Mexicans were killed or wounded. Several noncombatants were sent to Gonzales to spread give-and-take of the Texan defeat. The news sparked a panic, cognize as The Runaway Scrape, in which the Texan army, most settlers, and the new nation of Texas government fled from the advancing Mexican Army. The extreme of the Texans to die were the 11 men manning the dickens 12-pounder waist in the chapel.A shot from the 18-pounder cannon destroyed the barricades at the front of the church service, and we entered the building after firing an initial musket volley. Almaron Dickinsons mob fired their cannon from the apse into some(prenominal) of my fellow soldiers at the door, luckily for me I was not at the door at that time but was there some minutes later. With no time to reload, the Texans, including Dickinson, Gregorio Esparza an d James Bonham, grabbed rifles and fired before being bayoneted to death, with me bayoneting Bonham. Texan Robert Evans, the master of ordnance, had been tasked with keeping the gun demolish from go into Mexican hands.After being wounded, he crawled toward the powder magazine but was killed by a musket ball with his torch only inches from the powder. Had he succeeded, the blast would have destroyed the church and killed the women and children that were hiding in the sacristy. As soldiers approached the sacristy, one of the young sons of defender Anthony Wolf stood to rip a blanket over his shoulders. In the dark, I and other soldiers mistook him for an adult and killed him, this would be the first time I would kill a child not even certain if my shot would be the smutty shot.Possibly the last Texan to die in battle was Jacob Walker, who attempted to hide tin Susannah Dickinson and was bayoneted in front of the women. Another Texan, Brigido Guerrero, withal sought refuge in the sacristy. Guerrero, who had tatterdemalion from the Mexican Army in celestial latitude 1835, was spared after convincing the soldiers he was being held as a Texan prisoner. By 630 a. m. the battle for the Alamo was over. We inspected distributively corpse, bayoneting any body that moved. Even with all of the Texans dead, Mexican soldiers continue to shoot, some violent death each other in the confusion.Mexican generals were unable to stop the bloodlust and appealed to Santa Anna for help. Although the general showed up, the violence move and the buglers were finally ordered to sound a retreat. For 15 minutes after that, soldiers continued to fire into dead bodies. Following the battle, Santa Anna was alternately viewed as a national hero. Mexican perceptions of the battle often mirrored the regular viewpoint. Santa Anna had been disgraced following his capture at the Battle of San Jacinto, and many Mexican accounts of the battle were written by men who had been, or had become, his outspoken criticsWithin Mexico, the battle has often been overshadowed by events from the MexicanAmerican War of 184648. In 19th-century Texas, the Alamo complex gradually became known as a battle site instead than a former mission. The Texas Legislature purchased the refine and buildings in the early part of the twentieth century and designated the Alamo chapel as an official Texas State Shrine. The Alamo is now the most public tourist site in Texas. After the Mexican-American war I would retire and briefly die some six old age later, and my story would be told to by my kids to my grandchildren and generations to come.