Biography of Juan Seguin

Juan Seguin
Juan Seguin took shelter in the Alamo in February of 1836, along with Bowie, Crockett, Travis, and the other Texians, when General Santa Anna was advancing on San Antonio.

Seguin had been elected alcalde (mayor) of Bexar just two years before. Now bravely opposing the brutal Mexican dictator, he was the leader of a group of Tejanos who joined with the Anglos to fight for freedom.

After the Alamo was surrounded and came under bombardment, Colonel Travis sent messengers seeking help. The last to leave the besieged old mission was Juan Seguin. Accompanied by his orderly, another Tejano, he rode through the enemy lines carrying a final call from Travis for help. Eight patriotic Tejanos stayed behind among the Alamo's doomed defenders.
At Goliad, Fannin dithered, despite the appeals to go to the aid of the Texians trapped in the Alamo. So Juan Seguin recruited more Tejanos from among the rancheros and vaqueros of the ranches along the lower Guadalupe and San Antonio Rivers.

At Gonzales they met with General Sam Houston, recently named to lead the Texian forces. Then word came: The Alamo had fallen. Santa Anna was heading east, vowing to drive all the Anglos out of Texas. The town of Gonzales was burned, to deny its shelter to Santa Anna.

At Peach Creek cabin of Sarah and Bartlett McClure, a few miles east,Houston began his strategic retreat. He was not ready to fight, because his tiny force was not ready to fight. He needed to put miles between himself and the invaders, while raising a new army from among the settlers in Austin's colony along the Brazos.
  
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