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Post by bmoses on Sept 12, 2009 22:55:24 GMT -5
Legend 1. Main Gate. 2. Officer Guard’s Room. 3. Hardware Storage. 4. Officer’s Family Quarters. 5. Main Patio. 6. Hospital. 7. Kitchen. 8. Cemetery. 9. Church. 10. Gunpowder magazine. 11. Food storerooms. 12. Food storerooms. 13. Barracks. 14. Jail. 15. Horse pens. 16. Corrals and latrines. 17. Battery called Teran. 18. Battery called Condella. 19. Ramp of the Battery that they couldn’t finish. 20. Interior ditch and parapet walk. 21. Trenches made by the defenders. 22. Semicircular earthworks with stakes. 23. Trench started by defenders. 24. At this point, some colonists attempted to escape. 25. Points of attack and entry by Col. Duque and Romeo, ordered by Gen. Amador, with more than 500 men from Zapadores and Toluca. 1840 - José Juan Sánchez Navarro, “Vista y plano del Fuerto del Alamo.” Sánchez Navarro sketched this plan and view of the Alamo as it had looked at the time of the battle in 1836. Benson Latin American Library, University of Texas at Austin.
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