Travis' Last Letter from the Alamo with Photo emblems-of-the-iconic-texas-spirit and stopping foreign ships headed

and stopping foreign ships headed for Mexico

and Texas remained a free and sovereign nation for nine more years

the small volunteer contingent was vastly outnumbered as Santa Anna’s superior force poured into southeast Texas before being defeated at San Jacinto by the combined forces fighting for an Independent Texas

Santa Anna led one column onto a narrow peninsula

Travis' Last Letter from the Alamo with Photo emblems-of-the-iconic-texas-spirit and stopping foreign ships headedTravis' Last Letter from the Alamo Considered to be one of the most heroic documents in all of American history, this call to arms written by William Barret Travis was carried through enemy lines by Albert Martin a 30 year old Tennessean. In response 32 brave men bid farewell to their families and rode from Gonzales to the Alamo which was entirely surrounded by Santa Annas elite forces. In the early morning hours of March 1 they fought their way