Birdwatcher
What do think about the Henry Warnell Alamo survivor story?
I think individuals slipping out of the Alamo before or during the battle is entirely possible,and somewhere else I mentioned a newspaper account out of Missouri two weeks later speaking of a wounded Alamo survivor travelling back east with his brother.
During the fight itself, possibly as many as 100 Alamo defenders could have been killed OUTSIDE the walls, 50 who took cover in a ditch to the west as mentioned in a Mexican officer's account, and those we know bailed from the long barracks and livestock pens on the east side making a break to escape.
Bailing from the mission compound as 1,000+ soldados poured in through the opened gate on the north wall would be the logical thing to do, those that jumped west would just run into the Mexican camps and even more soldados than they were fleeing, those that fled east were heading for open country and escape, IF they could get past a couple of hundred lancers.
Birdwatcher
