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36.
Maryland Gazette
, May 12, 1836; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, pp. 176–179; Sesma Report, March 11, 1836, Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional, Archivo Historico Militar Mexicano.
37.
Sutherland Manuscript, CAH; Crisp,
Sleuthing the Alamo
, pp. 140–141, 144; Sesma Report, March 11, 1836, Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional, Archivo Historico Militar Mexicano; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, pp. 176–179; Allen Brown, “Trying for the Truth about the Alamo,”
American Heritage
, (November/December 2003), AmericanHeritage.com.
38.
New York Times
, December 15, 1907; Gaddy,
Texas in Revolt
, p. 53.
39.
Derr,
The Frontiersman
, pp. 267–268; Nelson,
The Alamo
, p. 111.
40.
Johnson,
A History of Texas and Texans
, pp. 416–417.
41.
Flores,
Remembering the Alamo
, p. xv.
42.
Crisp,
Sleuthing the Alamo
, 178.
43.
Sesma Report, March 11, 1836, Secretaria de la Defensa Nacional, Archivo Historico Militar Mexicano; Huffines,
Blood of Noble Men
, pp. 176–177, 179.
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