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After a raid Mosby and his men would scatter and find shelter and food in local patriotic Virginian homes

Fall of the Alamo prainting Appomattox CBy late February 1835. General Santa Anna was laying siege to the old Franciscan mission of the Alamo where a small contingent of 187 Texans including Colonel William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett had taken refuge. On the morning of March 5th, the Mexicans, under orders from Santa Anna to show no quarter, began their final assault. Hundreds of Mexicans died before the gallant defenders ran out of ammunition. Retreating from room to room,