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  DeWitt Colony Members of the Alamo Garrison
Dickinson was a flsmith, Mason and resident of Gonzales and artilleryman in the Alamo garrison.
Dickerson was among the original 18 defenders of the Gonzales cannon and was in charge of the cannon during the confrontation.
Dickinson was an aide to General Edward Burleson during the Siege of Bexar in early Dec 1835.
www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/alamogarrison.htm   (2057 words)

  
 Source - George Taylor (alamo Defender)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
1816-March 6, 1836) was a defender of the Alamo.
He was born in Tennessee circa 1816, the brother of Alamo defenders Edward Taylor (Alamo defender) and James Taylor (Alamo defender).
It is believed that they died in the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, though some evidence suggests that Taylor and his brothers were victims of the Goliad Massacre, not the Alamo.
mywebpage.netscape.com /Abbott5052/george-taylor-alamo-defender-source.html   (132 words)

  
 The People
The Battle of the Alamo is still considered one of the greatest and most heroic battles of modern warfare.
The struggles of the reinforcements to get to the besieged Alamo in time to thwart the attack of the Mexican Army is one of heartbreak and dedication.
The list of survivors at the Battle of the Alamo is a short one, and while the exact list is often disputed, this is believed to be as accurate as possible.
www.thealamofilm.com /people.shtml   (308 words)

  
 Key To The Alamo
There is mention in most of the Alamo texts of a second and even third charge, but under the circumstances what probably happened may well be likened to the movement of waves against a promontory: the first crest hitting solidly, then sluicing back, swirling and tumbling again toward the rock that was the Alamo.
During the long wait the Alamo must have been a dreadful sight to the Mexicans lying in the freezing fields: still as a beckoning tomb; bright deathly pale where it caught the moon: ink-fl where it was swallowed by shadows.
One of the twenty Tejano (Mexican) defenders of the Alamo, Esparza was among the eight who died in the battle.
www.vonsworks.com /alamo-number-key.htm   (11703 words)

  
 Heartland Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Edward's University improved to 12-6-2 on the season while St. Mary's falls to 10-8-2.
Edward's, 11-6-2 on the year, now advances to the finals of the Heartland tournament and will visit St. Mary's on Saturday with kickoff at 2 p.m.
Edward's University athletic director Debbie Taylor announced that Jon Clement has been named the new head women's soccer coach for the Hilltoppers.
heartlandsports.org /news/archives/soccerwomens.shtml   (5682 words)

  
 Alamo's hero list stays unamended
But they're not ready to add to the list of confirmed Alamo defenders, despite outside researchers' claims that at least seven more names should be added to the roster of 189 men who perished here in 1836.
At last year's observance, members of the Alamo Defenders Descendants Association said it uncovered evidence that among the casualties were William Edwards, Peletiah Gordon and Ross McClelland, along with two men known only by the surnames of Burnell and Gilmor.
Alamo Director Bradford R. Breuer declined to speculate on the validity of the private group's research.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/fr/638382/posts   (2421 words)

  
 William Perry
In the past, even cooks in the cafeteria at Los Alamos were given the "Q'' clearance, but under former Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary that was canceled because of the expense of background checks in which investigators talk to neighbors, friends, and other acquaintances of the prospective employee.
Edward McCallum who, prior to being shelved as politically untrustworthy by the Clinton team, had served as director of something called the Office of Safeguards and Security at the Department of Energy for nine years.
Most recently, the associate director for Los Alamos' National Security Programs, Dr. Stephen Younger, has been among those put on involuntary leave in what appears to be an effort to make him a scapegoat for the fact that Clinton appointees in DOE have prevented the implementation of security improvements he has long championed.
www.alamo-girl.com /0241.htm   (17184 words)

  
 A Safe Heaven for Pedophiles: Section 2
TONY ALAMO, leader of a Christian sect, was charged with felony child abuse in the beating in 1988 of an 11 year old boy at the group commune in Santa Clarita Valley.
Alamo issued orders over a speaker phone, listing each of the child's transgressions and dictated how many times to paddle the child.
The Circuit Court in Alpena, MI ruled in favor of Dr. Michael Taylor, who was sued by Jehovah's Witness Cindy Werth for transfusing blood to her in a post-childbirth crisis.
www.skeptictank.org /hs/cabuse2.htm   (8335 words)

  
 Edward Taylor (Alamo defender) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1812-March 6, 1836) was a defender of the Alamo and the brother of Alamo defenders George and James Taylor.
Taylor County, Texas is named for the Taylor brothers.
Edward Taylor from the Handbook of Texas Online
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Taylor_(Alamo_defender)   (90 words)

  
 Defending the Driniumor: Covering Force Operations in New Guinea, 1944
Edward J. Drea's use of interviews he conducted with U.S. Army veterans of the fighting adds the personal dimension to the campaign.
It was thus beyond the approximately 500-kilometer operational radius of land-based Allied fighter aircraft and accordingly was lightly defended by the Japanese.
By doctrinal theory, a rifle battalion in the defense would be assigned frontage of 900 to 1,800 meters, depending on the defensive strength of the terrain.
www-cgsc.army.mil /carl/resources/csi/Drea/Drea.asp   (19558 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Warlock: DVD: Edward Dmytryk,Richard Widmark,Henry Fonda,Anthony Quinn,Dorothy Malone,Dolores ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
One of the great, forgotten westerns, Edward Dmytryk's WARLOCK is the story of the little southwestern town of Warlock and its ongoing battle with a gang of law breaking desperados.
They have their brief moment on the stage and then it's time to take their leave, preferably with their boots on, knowing, or not knowing that they've done the job that history actually required, but that history, in fact, won't thank them for it...
Edward Dmytryk - Director, Oakley Hall - Writer (Novel), Robert Alan Aurthur - Writer (Screenplay), Edward Dmytryk - Producer (producer)...
www.amazon.com /Warlock-Edward-Dmytryk/dp/B0007QS24S   (2617 words)

  
 Opinion-Flash-05/23/97
Defendant raises three (3) issues, that the plaintiff's injuries are not causually related to her employment and therefore, not compensable; that the plaintiff did not give proper notice as required by Tenn. Code Ann.
Upon his plea of guilty, the defendant was convicted of felonious possession with the intent to sell marijuana and sentenced to two years, with ninety days of his sentence to be served in jail and the remainder of his sentence to be served in a community corrections program.
The trial court sentenced the defendant to serve eleven months and twenty-nine days for the fourth offense of driving under the influence, assessed a fine of $1,100, and revoked his driver's license for five years.
www.tba.org /Opinion_Flash/op_1997/op-03_056.html   (4450 words)

  
 Mexican-American War and the Media
The west end of the town is defended by what is called the Bishop's Palace, on a hill of several hundred feet in height, and mounted with 18 pounders, commanding the town, and the entire plain in front, within reach of its metal.
This castle was in turn defended by three batteries in its rear, on successive elevations, sweeping the hill side in the only direction where aproach was possible, and commanding the Saltillo road.
The town itself was a fortification, or defended by a succession of forts, running through the whole town, from east to west, and so arranged that all could range upon each one east, as they by chance should fall into our hands, while each of them could command the plain in front.
www.history.vt.edu /MxAmWar/Newspapers/RE/RE1846dJulyDec.htm   (14508 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: TAYLOR, EDWARD
Edward Taylor, Alamo defender, son of Anson and Elizabeth (Maley) Taylor, was born in Tennessee about 1812.
He was the older brother of Alamo defenders George and James Taylor.
It is believed the brothers died in the battle of the Alamo
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/TT/fta50.html   (217 words)

  
 Untitled Document
This list contains names of men who are known to have died in defense of the Alamo.
For more information on the Alamo defenders, please click the defender's name and you will be sent to the
To return to this page just click the back button on your browser menu.
www.thealamo.org /defend.html   (130 words)

  
 Andrew Kent 5 -- The Andew Kent Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
However, as a teenager he was involved along with brother David Boyd Kent and cousins Andrew and Isaac Zumwalt in minuteman activities led by his uncle Capt. Adam Zumwalt in the Lavaca River area.
Grandma Mary Ann Morriss, aged 92 years, died at the home of her son, W.R. Byas, on the upper Guadalupe, Saturday morning Feb. 24, after a lingering illness, and her body was laid to rest at Nichol's graveyard Sunday afternoon, the service being conducted by Rev. J.
Grandma Morriss was a daughter of Andrew J. Kent, one of the heroes of the Alamo.
dl.tamu.edu /static/Projects/sodct/andrew5.htm   (3719 words)

  
 Today in Old West History- February
On occasion, she would shoot the knobs off the frames of pictures hanging in bars to warn gambler gunmen that she was capable of defending herself.
Wild Bill Hickok reportedly asked Poker Alice to sit in with him and others during a game of poker in Saloon Number 10 in Deadwood on the day he was murdered; she declined, saying that she had already agreed to play with another group down the street in Mann's Saloon.
1836- Texas- William Fishbaugh (Fishback), an Alamo defender, was a resident of Gonzales.
www.knology.net /~lonesomedove/tiowhfeb.html   (5330 words)

  
 al.com: Travel
The Grand Hotel and the Gunnison House served as a hospital for wounded Confederate soldiers from the Battle of Vicksberg during the Civil War.
To defend arsenal of Selma, Forrest (Confederate flag) charged with 1500 into Wilson (U.S. flag), moving south with 7500.
Edward A. O'Neal (1818-1890) attended LaGrange College; lawyer; Colonel of the 26th Alabama Regiment, C.S.A.; appointed brigadier general.
www.al.com /travel/?historicalmarkers.html   (18501 words)

  
 Counties in Texas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bailey is named for Peter James Bailey, a defender of the Alamo.
The county was formed in 1840 from part of Red River County and named for James Bowie, who died at the Battle of the Alamo.
The county was named for William Philip King, who died at the Alamo.
www.clicksus.com /texas/countiesdata.php   (1517 words)

  
 Edward Copeland on Film: December 2005
The film marks the directing debut of actor Edward James Olmos, who stars as Santana, a man in East Los Angeles who finds himself in jail by the age of 16, where he proceeds to build a small crime empire with friends both inside and outside the penal system.
Early on, the film moves rather methodically as it recounts the early life of Santana and his parents, who were victims of the "Zoot Suit riots" of 1943.
During this process, he discovers that his public defender suppressed evidence that might have acquitted him.
eddieonfilm.blogspot.com /2005_12_01_eddieonfilm_archive.html   (10410 words)

  
 The Index Journal -- Millennium Milestones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
And you don't forget the Alamo because, in a way, you were born in the same place as Texas.
Two of the most famous defenders of the Alamo, William Barret Travis and James Butler Bonham, were born within a few miles of Saluda.
Like many defenders of the Alamo, including James Bowie and Davy Crockett, Travis and Bonham were killed.
www.indexjournal.com /mm2001b.html   (19576 words)

  
 February Vanguard -- Hightower Trail
The leader of this expedition to organize a new settlement was James Edward Oglethorpe, tenth and last child of Theophilus and Eleanor Oglethorpe.
Winston Churchill in his histories of England, has written of him an epitaph: He cannot be claimed as the defender of English liberties, nor wholly of the English Church, but none the less he died for them, and by his death preserved them not only to his son and heir, but to our own day.
February 23, 1836: The Alamo was besieged by Dictator Antonio López de Santa Anna, General-in-Chief of the Army of Operations, and President of the Republic of Mexico.
www.hightowertrail.com /VanguardFeb05.htm   (14181 words)

  
 Jack Hays
Hays had learned that General Zachary Taylor was raising a force to take possession of the Rio Grande, and he had journeyed to Corpus Christi to confer with the General, offering to place his men under the General’s orders to serve as scouts.
At first, General Taylor declined, claiming his own men could do the scouting, but it soon became evident that he needed Hays’ Rangers to relieve his cavalry of the difficult task of keeping his lines of communication open, especially when he lost sixty of his men to Mexican marauders when they were on a scout.
Although General Taylor had his men on the northeastern end of the city, it was the loss of the Bishop’s Palace which caused General Ampudia to begin his withdrawal into the center of Monterrey.
www.theoutlaws.com /heroes2.htm   (15405 words)

  
 Clinton Goveas :: Wikipedia Reference   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
December 16 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president of Haiti, ending 3 decades of military rule.
December 19 - Footballer Tony Adams, the captain of Arsenal and an England international defender, is sentenced to 4 months in prison and banned from driving for 2 years after being found guilty of drunk driving in connection with an accident in Southend-on-Sea on 6 May this year.
Vladimir Drinfeld, Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones, Shigefumi Mori, Edward Witten
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 Movie Review - Khartoum - eFilmCritic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Texas briefly became independent before its annexation to the United States in 1845; Great Britain waged war intermittently in the Sudan until 1899, with the aim of destroying both local revolutionaries and French influence over the area (the "Fashoda Incident" of 1898).
The Sudan would be completely useless to any colonial power except as territorial expansion for its own sake were it not for the two branches of the Nile running through it (they meet at Khartoum), but the only fact which imported for the Sudanese was that the foreign nationals were making a nuisance of themselves.
While Robert Ardrey's screenplay is occasionally pretentious, and while Frank Cordell's score often reminds one of a feeble attempt to imitate Sir Edward Elgar, Basil Dearden's direction and Heston's performance appear sincere enough.
efilmcritic.com /hbs.cgi?movie=5937   (2466 words)

  
 BORDERLINE BIGOTRY: DEFENDING OUR LAND (defying the rules of our nation means nothing to illegals)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A lot of the defenders of the Alamo were american citizens to came to fight for freedom.
Technical they were American Citizens at the Alamo since neither we or the Mexicans recognized the Republic of Texas.
Of the 182 who were killed or murdered at the Alamo, the overwhelming number of them were, in fact, American citizens.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1607806/posts   (4212 words)

  
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 Berkeley College of Engineering - Class Notes
Edward "Ty" Larson (B.S.'73 ME) of Gaithersburg, Maryland, is working on a large coal fired power project in the midwest.
His previous jobs as an attorney include deputy public defender and private practice in Encino before he was appointed commissioner in 1986.
Neil Taylor (B.S.'52 CEE) of Moraga, a former civil engineer for Pacific Gas & Electric, writes, "I have been retired for the past 19 years and am having more fun than a human being is supposed to have."
www.coe.berkeley.edu /alumni_friends/class_notes.html   (4804 words)

  
 Opinion-Flash-09/12/96
She pled guilty to both offenses and after a hearing was sentenced to six years for the burglary charge, and to four years for the theft offense.
In this appeal as of right, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the convicting evidence and the length of his sentence.
Indicted for aggravated assault, the defendant claims that the district attorney general abused his discretion by denying the application and that the trial court should have granted the request.
www.tba.org /Opinion_Flash/op_1996/op-02_81.html   (2545 words)

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