was there a john stroud at the alamo
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The Man from the Alamo Plot[edit] During the siege at the Alamo, John Stroud (Glenn Ford) is chosen to leave the fort and warn the families of the mission's defenders of the impending arrival of General Santa Anna.
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Areas of Interest William Barret Travis' Letter from the Alamo, 1836. At the Alamo in San Antonio, then called Bejar, 150 Texas rebels led by William Barret Travis made their stand against Santa Anna's vastly superior Mexican army. On the second day of the siege, February 24, 1836, Travis called for reinforcements with this heroic message: I shall never surrender or retreat.
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The Many Masks of The Lone Ranger Rather than exposing his identity and taking credit for his good deeds (he does not “announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others” (Matthew 6:2)), John Reid chooses to wear the mask of the Lone Ranger, and to offer his help in secret.
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Osborn Warren Deignan By Allan Rouse. Coxswain Osborn Deignan was one of the crewmen who volunteered for the mission to sink the MERRIMAC in the channel entrance of Santiago Harbor. Osborn Warren Deignan was born in or around Stuart Iowa on February 4, 1877. His father, John Deignan, was a conductor on the Rock Island Railway and a Civil War veteran who may have served in the U.S. Navy. Unfortunately, Osborns father was killed when a tornado struck his train at Grinnel, Iowa in 1882.
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What You Didn't Know About John Wilkes Booth & Jesse James John Wilkes Booth did not die in Garrett’s tobacco barn in 1865 as is commonly supposed. Booth was saved by his brother Knights and spirited immediately down into Texas after the assassination. He lived and worked for many years in Granbury under the alias ‘John St. Helen.’.
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Battle Of The Alamo On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery.
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Birdman of Alcatraz  (film) Birdman of Alcatraz (film) Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a largely fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the Birdman of Alcatraz because of his life with birds. In spite of the title, much of the action is set at Leavenworth Prison, where Stroud was jailed with his birds.
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STROUD. KeywordsOklahoma town history Stroud Lincoln County Tulsa Oklahoma Turner Turnpike National Register Indian Territory liquor cotton Henry Starr oil tornado Sac and Fox stroud. Located in eastern Lincoln County, Stroud is situated at the intersection of State Highways 66 and 99 and one mile south of the midpoint of the Turner Turnpike between Tulsa and Oklahoma City.
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- Sometime around eleven that morning, Santa Anna began his survey of the Alamo fortifications and surrounding area to familiarize himself with the area. The Mexican army pillaged the Texian's stores in Béxar and began the bombardment of the Alamo in earnest. The Texian artillery returned fire with no obvious results.
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- Captain Hayes of the mighty law enforcement squad named the Texas Rangers reached the pinnacle of his career when he captured the notorious John Henry, an outlaw cowboy, and put him behind ...
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Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin Grave of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln Assassin. Baltimore, Maryland. Edgar Allen Poe isn't buried in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery, but 68,000 other people are -- including oddities such as John Hurst, the first casualty of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904, and Johnny Eck, the famous half-man circus freak.
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Who was responsible for the massacres at the Alamo and Goliad? Zachary Taylor Junipero Serra Santa Anna Who was responsible for the massacres at the Alamo and Goliad? Zachary Taylor Junipero Serra Santa Anna
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Battle Of The Alamo The Alamo: 13 Days of Glory. By Lee Paul. February 23, 1836, began the siege of the Alamo, a 13-day moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in the heart of downtown San Antonio, Texas, into a shrine known and revered the world over.hortly after the capture of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, rumors began to circulate that 49-year-old Crockett had not died alongside his men in the final moments of the Alamo.
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The Saint Patrick's Battalion Most of the San Patricios were either killed or captured in this battle: some escaped into Mexico City, but not enough to form a cohesive army unit. John Riley was among those captured. Less than a month later, Mexico City was taken by the Americans and the war was over.
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CROCKETT, DAVID A tomb that purportedly holds the ashes of those killed at the Alamo, including Davy Crockett, although its authenticity has been doubted. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
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List of Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo Santa Anna led an army to San Antonio de Bexar, arriving on February 23, 1836, and immediately initiating a siege of the Alamo, which housed Texian Army troops. As the Mexican Army had approached San Antonio, several of the Alamo defenders brought their families into the Alamo to keep them safe.
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Who was responsible for the massacres at the Alamo and Goliad? Zachary Taylor Junipero Serra Santa Anna Santa Anna was responsible for the massacres of the Alamo and goliad.
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- United States frontiersman and Tennessee politician who died at the siege of the Alamo (1786-1836) born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665) American colonist (born in England) who was banished from Boston for her religious views (1591-1643)
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John Hawkins (naval commander) Sir John Hawkins. Admiral Sir John Hawkins (also spelled as Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 November 1595) was an English naval commander and administrator, merchant, navigator, shipbuilder, privateer and slave trader. His elder brother and trading partner was William (b, c, 1519).
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- Within days, Sam Houston ordered a retreat, before Santa Anna even reached northern Texas, to regroup. Within weeks many settlers rallied to the cause of “Remember the Alamo!” and Santa Anna was beaten at the Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 1836.
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Kidnapping of Pocahontas E-48 Kidnapping of Pocahontas E-48. Published on March 12, 2008 in 1600s, Early Settlement, Elle and Stafford. Tags: Captain Samuel Argall, Chief Powhatan, Indians, Jamestown, John Rolfe, Pocahontas. Near here, Pocahontas visited friends among the Patawomecks on the Potomac River in April 1613. Capt. Samuel Argall saw an opportunity to capture Pocahontas and exchange her for English prisoners held by her father Chief Powhatan. Argall sought out Iopassus, the chief of the Indian town of Passapatanzy. After Argall made veiled threats, Iopassus obtained permission from his brother the Patawomeck district chief to aid Argall. Iopassus had one of his wives insist that Pocahontas accompany her on a tour of Argall’s ship. Once aboard, Pocahontas was detained, the ship departed, and she was held captive elsewhere in the colony. During negotiations for her exchange, Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614. [2001] Extended Information
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Losoya, JosÃ© Toribio Losoya, José Toribio. José Toribio Losoya was born 1805 in San Antonio de Bexar and he died March 6, 1836 defending the Alamo. He grew up with his family in an old Indian dwelling in the Alamo barrio near the southwest corner of the mission compound. By 1830, he was a Private in the Álamo de Parras military company, serving under Lieutenant Colonel José Francisco Ruiz. In September 1832, that company built and occupied Fort Tenoxtitlán. He was one of many Mexican soldiers who opposed Antonio López de Santa Anna’s despotic rule.
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- At the crucial Battle of San Jacinto on April 21, 910 Texan soldiers commanded by Sam Houston defeated Santa Ana’s army of 1,250 men, spurred on by cries of “Remember the Alamo!” The next day, after Texan forces captured Santa Ana himself, the general issued orders for all Mexican troops to pull back behind the Rio Grande River.
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The Alamo  (1960 film) The film depicts the Battle of the Alamo and the events leading up to it. Sam Houston leads the forces fighting for Texas independence and needs time to build an army.espite being anachronistic (How the West Was Won begins in 1839 and the Alamo fell in 1836), the clip occurs near the beginning of the second half of the film, as Spencer Tracy narrates the events that led up to the American Civil War.
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Robert Stroud For the 1962 film, see Birdman of Alcatraz (film). Robert Franklin Stroud (January 28, 1890 – November 21, 1963), known as the Birdman of Alcatraz, was an American federal prisoner and author who has been cited as one of the United States' most notorious criminals.