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Mexican Lt. Col. José Enrique de la Peña witnessed the 1836 Battle of the Alamo and documented it in a 109-page field diary during the 1836 Texas campaign. After the war, he wrote a 400-page narrative based on his field diary and reports from his fellow officers.
Under General Antonio López de Santa Anna, de la Peña participated in the Battle of the Alamo. In 1955, a book of his memoirs of the battle was published. The memoirs are controversial in that they said that Davy Crockett did not die fighting (as is the common belief), but instead surrendered (along with his Tennessee boys) during the battle ...
José Enrique de la Peña was a lieutenant colonel in the Mexican navy and participant in the battle of the Alamo. Born in Jalisco, Mexico, about 1807, De la Peña, around age eighteen, joined the navy in 1825.
Sep 21, 1975 · De la Pena wrote after he participated in the assault on the Alamo that seven men, including the legendary Crockett, were captured and taken before Santa Ana, the Mexican general and...
Feb 15, 2010 · The de la Pena papers consist of many items, none of which can be called his original field diary. Crisp describes them as a “disjointed collection” of military records and personal papers in three large packets and nearly two dozen file folders.
May 14, 2004 · The suggestion that Crockett’s death may have been less than glorious outraged Alamo partisans, who have been denouncing the de la Peña diary as an attack on American heroism since the first English translation appeared in 1975.
Nov 18, 1998 · The memoirs, historians believe, were written sometime in the late 1830's by de la Pena in an effort to expose what he saw as the ineptitude of top Mexican leaders in the war.
