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The McArdle Scrapbooks Dawn at the Alamo
McArdle's Original Draft of His Manuscript on His Conception of the Painting, "Dawn at the Alamo"
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Travis had a cannon placed
high enough to fire over the walls.
The wreck shows some of
the effects of the ten days and nights
bombardment.
The remaining structure of
historic interest is the Garita or
Look-out and powderhouse, seen
on the horizon.
It remains to point out
the men generally spoken of as
the "heroes of the Alamo," the justice
of which - however, is questionable:
where each defender was a hero,
if men are such — who in the face
of inevitable death refuse to either
retreat or surrender.
"The Blood red flag - symbol of
no quarter - foretold their doom,
and Santa Anna in writing to
the painter asserted that
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McArdle's Original Draft of His Manuscript on His Conception of the Painting, "Dawn at the Alamo", Dawn at the Alamo Notebook, The McArdle Notebooks, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.