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Re: Alamo Circle Stomp(A moment in Fiesta History)

from: Juana Navarro Alsbury
67.95.99.246
03-03-07
20:09

Juana Navarro Alsbury Problems: 1, 2, 9 The 28-year-old niece of Senor Veramendi and therefore an in-law of Bowie, she had married a Texan soldier, Dr. Horace Alsbury, two months earlier, and had a small child (Alejo Perez) from a previous marriage. (Her first husband was yet another cholera victim.) Her new husband was absent when the Mexican army arrived, and she entered the Alamo with her younger sister, Gertrudis Navarro, and was in a room on the west wall of the fort during the assault. High points:

As the firing approached their room. Gertrudis called on the soldiers not to shoot into the room. They barged in, looking for loot. A sick Texan in the room tried to protect Juana Alsbury and was killed. A Tejano who ran into the room seeking cover was killed. Looting began in earnest. An officer took them outside. Another officer had them move out of the way of a cannon about to be fired. Then, her ex-brother-in-law found them and got them to safety. (One accounts says he was a sergeant in the Mexican army.) Behind her, firing continued until noon.

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