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____ was the commander of the Texan Army. Houston knew that the farther he retreated he might get help from ____. The people that lived between the Brazos.

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1 ____ was the commander of the Texan Army. Houston knew that the farther he retreated he might get help from ____. The people that lived between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers were scared of the Mexican army so they decided to ___. People were afraid that Santa Anna would kill them too just like he killed all of Fannin’s men and everyone at the ____. The movement of people from between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers was called the ____. People took everything that they had. As Houston was retreating two companies of men decided they did not want to ____. Houston spent two weeks training his army. It was very rainy when Houston trained his troops and they complained quite a bit. Many people wanted to _____ Houston because of his treatment of the troops and the training he made them do. ____ was an African American scout that went in and out of Santa Anna’s camps and let the Texans know of their movements. He posed as a runaway slave.

2 The Texans were all holed up at Buffalo Bayou and knew that the Mexican Army was nearby and moving to the San Jacinto River. Texan troops camped in a grove of oak trees in the Bayou. A Bayou is like a_____. The Mexicans were as close as ¾ of a mile away. Santa Anna was on the edge of a prairie and a swamp for his camp. Many of his officers complained that it was a tough area to_____. Santa Anna did not care how difficult it was to defend because he thought that the Texans would not____. On April 20 th 1836, Texan cavalry had a small skirmish with Mexican troops. _____ was the man that was in charge of the Texan cavalry. There was only one company in Houston’s army that was made up of native Texans. The native Texans were in charge of guarding the Texan camp. The native Texans all spoke ___. They wanted to fight not guard because they wanted to ___ for their land.

3 171 men in Houston’s army owned land. The rest came from ____. There were people from France, England, Ireland, Scotland, Poland, and Germany. Santa Anna only had about 850 troops with him. General ___ joined Santa Anna with a little more than 500. Most of General Cos’s troops were ____. Cos’ troops were very tired because they had been marching all day to Santa Anna. ____ was ordered to destroy the bridge across Vince’s bayou. The reason they blew up the bridge was to __________ At noon on the 21 st of April Houston called a council of ___. Houston ordered an attack. Burleson, Sherman, Millard, and Hockley all had troops in the attack. The cavalry was led by Mirabeau Lamar. Lamar was to stop the Mexicans from ____.

4 As the Texans moved across the open prairie the Mexican camp was all quiet. Most of Santa Anna’s soldiers were _____ and _____. The Texans were right on the Mexican camp before they even knew that they were there. As the Texans attacked they screamed _____ and _____. The Mexicans were very ___ because of the surprise attack. Those Mexican troops that fled across the prairie were cut down by the Texan ____. The Mexicans fought for only ___ minutes but the killing of the Mexicans lasted all night long.

5 Those Mexicans that fled in to the swamps were cut down. The battle where the Texans beat the Mexicans at Buffalo Bayou on the San Jacinto River was called the battle of ___. Fewer than ___ Texans were killed in the battle. In the fighting General Houston had his ___ shattered. A total of ____ Mexicans died in the Battle of San Jacinto. ____ were captured. Santa Anna had escaped capture but was found huddled like a baby in the ____ surrounding the Bayou. The Texans did not notice that it was Santa Anna because he was dressed like ____. The only way that the Texans found out that it was Santa Anna was because ____. Santa Anna was taken to Houston who was resting under a ___ and Santa Anna ___. The ___ won and would soon become their own ____.


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