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====Assault of March 6====

====Assault of March 6====

[[File:AlamoMap Large.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Plan of the Alamo enclosure, done in 1836 by Mexican officer José Juan Sánchez Navarro in his private ledger, with comments on the buildings and the enclosure's strengths and weaknesses.]]

[[File:AlamoMap Large.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Plan of the Alamo enclosure, done in 1836 by Mexican officer José Juan Sánchez Navarro in his private ledger, with comments on the buildings and the enclosure's strengths and weaknesses.]]

On March 5 Santa Anna declared to his officers that a general assault on the Alamo would take place the following morning, despite objections that a surrender was possible due to no relief coming and the fort crumbling.  At 5 AM around 1,800 troops massed forward, to be met with canister shot from the Texian artillery.  Reforming, they went forward again, this time breaching the defensive perimeter on all sides; Travis died on the north bastion.  Vicious hand-to-hand fighting occurred as the Texians fall back to the Long Barracks.  In the South Barracks Bowie - out of the battle since the first day of the siege with pneumonia - was bayoneted in his cot.  The remaining defenders fell some 90 minutes after the assault began.

On March 5 Santa Anna declared to his officers that a general assault on the Alamo would take place the following morning, despite objections that a surrender was possible due to no relief coming and the fort crumbling.  At 5 AM around 1,800 troops massed forward, to be met with canister shot from the Texian artillery.  Reforming, they went forward again, this time breaching the defensive perimeter on all sides; Travis died on the north bastion.  Vicious hand-to-hand fighting occurred as the Texians fell back to the Long Barracks.  In the South Barracks Bowie - out of the battle since the first day of the siege with pneumonia - was bayoneted in his cot.  The remaining defenders fell some 90 minutes after the assault began.

====Survivors====

====Survivors====