| A | B |
|---|
| civilians | those not part of military force |
| fortify | to strengthen |
| dispatch | to send off; also an official message |
| unit | an organized group that is part of a military establishment |
| bombard | to attck using bombs |
| General Cos | Mexican general surrandered San Antonio to Texas |
| Suzanna Dickinson | survived through Alamo battle |
| Albert Martin & George Kimball | they brought 32 men to Alamo |
| Brigido Guerrero | survived Alamo battle |
| Davy Crockett | a volunteer a former United States Congressman |
| Sam Houston | was made commander of the regular Texas army, attempted to bring the various military units togethr |
| Colnel Neill | about 100 men were still in San Antonio under the command of Neill |
| General Urrea | crossed Rio Grande at Matamoros and moved along the Gulf Coase toward Golkid |
| Colonel Fannin | commander of 400 men, troops near Goliad |
| Colonel de la Pena | Mexican Colonel wrote that Davy Crockett surrendered |
| Frank W. Johnson | was authorized to attack the Mexican city of Matamoros |
| James Bowie | about 25 Texans from Goliad to Alamo to inspect the situation there, made decision whether to s tay or abandon the post |
| Louis "Moses" Rose | decided to leave the Alamo |
| calvary | soldiers that are mounted on horseback |
| infantry | soldiers that fight on foot |
| bayou | small river that is usually marshy |
| massacre | to kill many at one time |
| flank | the right or left ide of a formation |
| General Filisola | commanded Mexican Army and was to arrest David Burnet |
| Colonel Almonte | Santa Ana most trusted aid |
| Runaway Scrape | hundreds of families |
| annexation | to incorporate country or territory into another country or territory |
| cabinet | a body of advisers |
| revenue | money that a nation or state collects |
| endowment fund | donation set apart for a specific purpose |
| buffer | a neutral region separating two rivals |
| charter | a written contract that defines a city educationally |
| consecutive | following one after the other |
| archives | public documents |
| balance budget | a budget in which spending does not exceed revenues |
| firtst capitol of the republic | Columbia |
| Throckmorton | Secretary of War |
| Dr. Anson Jones | served as secretary of State under Houston, ran in 1844 for new vice president |
| immigrant agent | one who helps bring people into a country to take up residency |
| veteran | a person with long experience in the Armed Forces |
| capital | the money invested in a business |
| speculator | a person who buys land to sell at a profit when the price goes up |
| heir | one who inherits or is entitled to inheirt property or money |
| millimer | a person makes, rims or sells women's hats |
| tanner | a person who makes hides into leather |
| denomination | a religious organization |
| travois | a wehicle consisting of a platform and trailing poles used by the Plains people |
| academy | a school that offers high school course |
| wheelwright | a person who makes and repairs wheels and wheeled wehicles |
| Henri Castro | served 2 years for south west of San Antonio |
| Ruetersville | very frist grant college in Texas |
| teamster | a person who drives or directs a team of animals |
| special session | a meeting in which the legislative decides on a special issue |
| joint resolution | a resolution passed by both houses of a legistive body that has the force of law |
| recognition | forma acknowledgement of the existence of a national government |
| flagship | he ship that carries the commander of a fleet |
| Morfit | was to investigate the general state of affairs there (Texas) |
| Wharton | went to Washington D.C. to work for both recognition and annexation |
| Hunt | sent after Wharton to help, first Texas minister to the United States |
| Henderson | to obtain recognition & commercial treaties with France and Great Britain |
| Mier expedition | lead by Col. Fisher, 900 soliders moved across the Rio Grande and attacked the Mexican townw of Mien |
| Somervell | lead 750 militia to parol the areas from San Antonio to Laredo on Rio Grande |
