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Travis' 'Victory or Death' letter from Alamo inspired Americans
 (15th in a series)
Late on the night of Sunday, April 10, 1836, Captain John Quitman and his band of more than three dozen men, including members of the Natchez militia and other Mississippi volunteers, arrived in the ghost town of St. Augustine, Texas, 12 miles west of the Sabine River. Also riding with the Mississippians were a dozen Virginians heading in the same direction.
Quitman and his men were rallying to a call from the newly-formed Republic of Texas in its fight for independence from the rule of Mexico and dictator Santa Anna. The Mississippians were in route to Nacogdoches, Texas, in search of Gen. Sam Houston and the Texas army.
In a dispatch by courier to Gen. Felix Huston of Natchez, who was preparing to lead 600 Mississippi volunteers to Texas, Quitman wrote that while at San Augustine "we first heard a rumor that several thousand Mexican Calvary had crossed the Brazos (river) above, and were lying near the forks of the Trinity (river), 120 miles northwest (of Nacogdoches)...and that 1500 Indians had joined them there." The news caused a panic, and the residents of San Augustine fled to Louisiana.
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