61. All the legal settlers agreed to convert to Catholicism
It wasn't rigidly enforced.
Mexico ended slavery when it won its independance; Santa Ana's enforcement of this detail was the big problem with most of the "freedom fighters". Not all the Alamo defenders were going to benefit, though. Some just thought it was a big adventure. Most of the leading Anglo citizens joined the "runaway scrape" to the east, in order to get away from Santa Ana's army (and the oher Mexican armies in Texas at the time.) They left the guys at the Alamo holding the bag.
Santa Ana turned that motley crew into a bunch of Dead Heroes & a legend had been born.
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