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1836
January 3 James Grant and Frank Johnson are ordered by the Texas General Council to attack Matamoros. They strip the Alamo of most of its remaining men and supplies. The few left to support the Alamo select James C. Neill as their commander.
January 6 Santa Anna arrives at Saltillo.
January 11 James Bowie and William Blount arrive at Goliad to support a Matamoros expedition.
January 14
Sam Houston arrives at Goliad to break up the Matamoros expedition.
J.C. Neill, commander at the Alamo, pleads for supplies.
Philip Dimmitt, commandant at Presidio La Bahia, resigns his post after James Grant strips Goliad of its supplies. Peyton S. Wyatt assumes command.
January 19 James Bowie and James Bonham arrive at the Alamo with thirty men.Houston orders Francis W. Thornton to command at Goliad.
February 1 Elections are held in settlements across Texas for an independence convention.
February 2 James Bowie pleads to Smith for supplies.Fannin arrives with troops at Copano, Texas to aid the Matamoros Expedition.
February 3 William Travis arrives at the Alamo.
February 4 Fannin and troops march to Refugio to link up with Grant and Johnson.
February 7 Fannin at Refugio and is elected colonel of the volunteer troops who will gather around Goliad.Fannin receives information of a Mexican advance upon Texas and abandons a Matamoros attack.
February 8 David Crockett arrives at the Alamo.
February 9 James Grant and Frank Johnson continue on their Matamoros Expedition, gathering horses around San Patricio and South Texas.
February 11 Alamo commander J.C. Neill leaves the Alamo due to a family illness. He appoints Travis commander.
February 12 James Fannin leaves Refugio with his troops and assumes command at Presidio La Bahia in Goliad.
February 13
Santa Anna and his army reach the city of Guerrero.
Urrea reinforces Matamoros and marches toward San Patricio and South Texas.
Travis and Bowie agree upon joint command of the Alamo's forces.
February 16 Santa Anna crosses the Rio Grande.
February 17 Travis sends out letters pleading for men and supplies.General José de Urrea crosses the Rio Grande.
February 21 Santa Anna arrives at the Medina River.
February 22 Heavy rains swell the Medina and spoil a surprise attack by Sesma's cavalry.
February 23
Santa Anna enters San Antonio with generals Sesma, Cos and Castrillón.
The Alamo comes under artillery fire from Mexican troops.
The siege of the Alamo begins.
February 24
Travis writes his famous "To the People of Texas & all Americans in the world" letter.
Bowie becomes ill.
February 25 Fannin, commander of troops at Goliad, receives Travis' plea for aid.
February 26 James Fannin attempts his relief march to the Alamo but turns back. R.M Williamson arrives in Gonzales to help organize the Alamo relief forces gathering there .
February 27 Mexican General José de Urrea attacks and defeats Frank Johnson and a small band of Texans at the Battle of San Patricio.
February 28 Juan Seguin and his relief forces waiting on the Cibolo Creek encounter the Francis L. DeSauque and John Chenoweth party on the Goliad Road (Cibolo crossing), with supplies gathered from the Seguin Ranch, he informs Seguin that Fannin should only be about two days away.
February 29 Houston arrives at Washington on the Brazos. The Gonzales relief forces arrive on the Cibolo below Bexar.
March 1
The Convention of 1836 of elected delegates convenes at Washington-on-the-Brazos.
Thirty-two men from Gonzales of the "Gonzales Company of Mounted Volunteers" enter the Alamo at 1:00 A.M."The Gonzales 32".
March 2
Texas Declaration of Independence is signed and The Republic of Texas is declared.
David G. Burnet is elected interim president by the delegates.
Texans with James Grant are defeated at the Battle of Agua Dulce.
March 3 James B. Bonham arrives back at the Alamo telling Travis that Fannin was not coming.Mexican Aldama, Toluca and Zapadores battalions arrived in San Antonio.
March 4
Sam Houston is appointed commander of all Texas forces.
Santa Anna holds a council of war with Generals Joaquín Ramírez y Sesma, Martín Perfecto de Cos, Manuel F. Castrillónand Colonels Juan Almonte, Agustín Amat, Francisco Duque and Manuel Romero to plan the final assault.
March 5
Mexican artillery stops shelling the Alamo.
Neill at Gonzales in command of the troops gathering there.
March 6 Battle of the Alamo: the Alamo falls. Approximately 180-250 Texians, Tejanos, and Anglos die. The thirteen-day siege resulted in the deaths of all of its defenders, including William B. Travis, David Crockett, and Jim Bowie.Several civilians survived.
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