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cantador4u
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Jamison Lake Mar 31, 2011 20:01:28 GMT -5

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Post by cantador4u on Mar 31, 2011 20:01:28 GMT -5

I was looking at the Adina DeZavala and Amelia Williams copies of the Jameson Plat and I got to wondering about something. Both of them show a lake to the Northeast and connected to the Alamo acequia. Was Jamison planning on somehow backing up the water to form a lake or is this supposed to represent the flooded area typically shown as being directly east of the Alamo church

You can see the maps here.

Adina DeZavala’s Copy of the Jameson Plat, 1836
alamostudies.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=maps&action=display&thread=714

Amelia William’s Copy of the Jameson Plat, 1836
alamostudies.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=maps&action=display&thread=686

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Tom Nuckols
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Jamison Lake Mar 31, 2011 22:59:58 GMT -5

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Post by Tom Nuckols on Mar 31, 2011 22:59:58 GMT -5

Mar 31, 2011 20:01:28 GMT -5 cantador4u said:

Was Jamison planning on somehow backing up the water to form a lake or is this supposed to represent the flooded area typically shown as being directly east of the Alamo church

Yes, I think it was something he was planning. Note the use of the words "contemplate" and "contemplated" in the parts of the legend referring to the lake and the ditch. With a reservoir right outside the walls, a siege army would've been much harder pressed to cut off the fort's water supply. They would've had to come within spiting distance of the fort to block the ditch. As it was, the Mexicans could block the ditch from a point much more distant from the Texians' guns.

“The Alamo was never built by a military people for a fortress...”

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Jamison Lake Mar 31, 2011 23:22:59 GMT -5

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Post by cantador4u on Mar 31, 2011 23:22:59 GMT -5

Duuuuuuuhhhhh... Oh yea, like looking at the pictures isn't enough, now you want me to READ too?

It must have seemed like a good idea at the time. How were they to use all that water when they couldn't go out to get water from the acequia as they did on the 4th day of the seige (Feb 26), and got chased back in by the Mexican army? I suspect they changed their water collecting to the night time.

- Paul Meske

Paul Meske, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin