Casualties at the Siege of the Alamo

How many died In the Alamo? It depends on who you ask.

Source Publication Texan
Deaths
Mexican
Deaths
Mexican
Wounded
Carlos E. Castañeda The Mexican side of the Texas Revolution - 1970 Page 14,105,363 183 400 300
DRT Listed In Alamo Long Barracks 189 600  
José de LaPeña, Officer in Mexican Army Diary - With Santa Anna in Texas 1836 Report sent by Army 253 
600
311  
T.R. Fehrenbach A History of Texas and the Texans 1983 page 215 182    
Mary Ann Noonan Heroes of the Alamo and Goliad 
1987 page 5
215 500-600  
Stephen Hardin Texas Iliad, A Military History 
1994 Page 155
  600  
John Holland Jenkins Recollections of Early Texas 1958 
page37 and footnotes
207 
187
1544  
Jeff Long Duel of eagles 1990 
page 259
182 600  
Walter Lord A Time to Stand 
1961 page 167
183 600  
L.F. Meyers History Battles and the Fall of the Alamo 
1896 pages 19-20
Less than 200 2000 Less than 300
General Santa Anna The Eagle - Autobiography 1988 600 1000 or wounded
Noah Smithwick The Evolution of a State 1983 
page 96
200    
Ralph W. Steen The Texas Story 1960 
Page 121
187/198 600/1500  
Homer Thrall A Pictorial History of Texas 
1879 Page 246
189 378  
Lon Tinkle 13 Days to Glory 1958 
Page 231
182 1200-1500  
Frank X. Tolbert An Informal History of Texas 
1951 Page 88
187 1600  
Henderson K. Yoakum History of Texas from 1655-1846 
Vol2 Pages78-81
188 521  
Francisco Becerra,
Sergeant Mexican Army
Diary   2000 300
Francisco Ruiz - 
The Alcalde of Bexar
Personal Statements   1600  
Mrs. Dickenson and 
Travis' Servant Joe
Eye Witness   1600  
Telegraph and Texas Register March 24, 1836   1500  
Messenger to Juan Seguin-Gonzales     1500  
Messenger from Mexican Citizens     521 as many
Jesse B. Badgett Member of Convention- to Press   881 700
Ben - Santa Anna's Cook 
to Col. Stiff
Mexican Staff Officers   1200  
Ramon Caro Secretary of Santa Anna   1200  
The History Shop Research 189 1544  

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