Many soliders were surrounding, and many people inside & outside were being killed. There were Mexican cannons outside & inside was filled with soliders fighting.
By mid-February 1836, Colonel James Bowie and Lieutenant Colonel William B. Travis had taken command of Texan forces in San Antonio. ... The Texans held out for 13 days, but on the morning of March 6 Mexican forces broke through a breach in the outer wall of the courtyard and overpowered them.
