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  1. El degüello (Spanish: El toque a degüello) is a bugle call, notable in the United States for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo [1] to signal that the defenders of the garrison would receive no quarter by the attacking Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

  2. www.tshaonline.org · handbook · entriesDegüello - TSHA

    Jul 20, 2020 · The degüello, music played by the Mexican army bands on the morning of March 6, 1836, was the signal for Antonio López de Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo.

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    El Degüello is a bugle call, notable in the US for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo. "Toque a Degüello" was introduced to the Americas by the Spanish armies and was later adopted by the patriot armies fighting against them during the Spanish American wars of independence. It was widely used by Simon Bolivar's armies, notably during the Battle of Junin and the Battle of Ayacucho.

    "Degüello" is a Spanish noun from the verb "degollar", to describe the action of throat-cutting. More figuratively, it means "give no quarter." It "signifies the act of beheading or throat-cutting and in Spanish history became associated with the battle music, which, in different versions, meant complete destruction of the enemy without mercy." It is similar to the war cry "¡A degüello!"used by Cuban rebels in the 19th century to launch mounted charges against the Spanish infantry.[citation needed]

    Martha Keller's The Alamo in Brady's Bend and Other Ballads, published in 1946, became popularized through Juanita Coulson's folk song, "No Quarter, No Quarter." In it, Keller wrote, "When they sound the 'No Quarter', they'll rise to the slaughter, when they play 'The Deguello', the wail of despair."

    K. R. Wood's 1997 compilation album Fathers of Texas explains the bugle call and what it meant at the Alamo through song and narration.

    In films, El Degüello varies, sometimes markedly. It is an instrumental — not a bugle call — in the John Wayne films Rio Bravo (1959) and The Alamo (1960), and in The Alamo (2004). In the first two films mentioned, the same music is used, it was not the actual Deguello, but actually music written by film composer Dimitri Tiomkin; in the latter, it ...

    •Bugle and trumpet calls of the Mexican Armed Forces

  3. List of longest rivers of Mexico. Map showing major rivers in Mexico. Among the longest rivers of Mexico are 26 streams of at least 250 km (160 mi). In the case of rivers such as the Colorado, the length listed in the table below is solely that of the main stem. [1]

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    Name
    Mouth[5]
    Length
    1
    Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte or Río ...
    Gulf of Mexico 25°57′22″N 97°08′43″W  / ...
    3,108 km 1,931 mi † [n 1]
    2
    Gulf of California 31°48′57″N 114°48′22″W ...
    2,337 km 1,452 mi † [n 4]
    3
    Grijalva – Usumacinta Rivers
    Bay of Campeche 18°35′20″N 92°41′20″W  / ...
    1,911 km 1,187 mi † [n 7]
    4
    Nazas – Aguanaval Rivers
    Bolsón de Mapimí 25°12′00″N 104°12′00″W  ...
    1,081 km 672 mi
  4. Mar 9, 2019 · El Degüello – “Give No Quarter”. Santa Anna, the little bantam rooster Mexican General, had this song played to the The men defending the Alamo, in 1836. It is the cut throat or slit throat song. It meant no quarter, every soldier would be killed, no surrenders taken. And all were killed.

  5. Once inside the city, the Texan soldiers were ambushed from their flanks and eventually surrendered in order to avoid the infamous Degüello. The Mexicans army took 243 Texans as prisoner and marched them toward Mexico City via Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Monterrey, Nuevo León.

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  7. Mar 13, 2021 · The bugle call is thought to have been one of several dozen commonly used by the Mexican Army led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna on March 6, 1836. The term El Degüello is believed to have been derived from Spanish bugle calls signalling “attack/beheading/throat cutting/no quarter” or “death without mercy.”

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