[2231) [SANTA ANNA to TORNELj
[Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Bexar, to Jose .l\laria Tomei, .Mexico, March 3, 1836, 8:00 A.M., giving details of the assault on the Alamo.] [2232) [SANTA ANNA to URREA]
To General Urrea, Commander, &c.:-
[Official.] In respect to the prisoners of whom you speak in your last communication, you must not fail to bear in mind the circular of the supreme government, in which it is decreed, that "foreigners invading the republic, and taken with arms in their hands, shall be judged and treated as pirates;" and as, in my view of the matler, every Mexican guilty of the crime of joining these adventurers loses the rights of a citizen by his unnatural conduct, the five Mexican prisoners whom you have taken ought also lo suffer as traitors. (Unofficial.] In regard lo foreigners who make war, and those unnatural Mexicans who have joined their cause, you will remark that what 1 have slated lo you officially is in accordance with the former provisions of the supreme government. An example is ·necessary, in order that those adventurers may be duly warned, and the nation be delivered from the ills she is daily doomed to suffer. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. General Quarters, Bejar, .March 3, 1836. [2233) [TRAVIS to AYRES]
[Commandaney of the Alamo, Bexar ~larch 3, 1836]
Take care of my little boy. If the country should be saved, I may make him a splendid fortune; but if the country should be lost and I should perish, he will have nothing but the proud recollection that he is the son of a man who died for his country. [W. Barret Travis] [To David Ayres]
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