{"id":1007,"date":"2025-11-27T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abuelosdetexas.com\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:22:58","slug":"alamo-brothers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abuelosdetexas.com\/?page_id=1007","title":{"rendered":"Alamo Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Alamo Brothers: Gregorio Esparza, Francisco Esparza, Juan Segu\u00edn, and the Tejanos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 190 Year Untold Story – Its Time For Tejano Truth.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Gregorio Esparza – The Last Defender of the Alamo and the Only Christian Burial. Descendant of Emperor Montezuma II, Hernan Cortes, & Lope Ruiz de Esparza. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The story of the Alamo is often told as an Anglo frontier legend \u2013 Crockett, Bowie, Travis, and a doomed stand for liberty. It’s a great story! <\/strong>Although there is another story running right through the heart of it – the story of Tejano families<\/strong> who fought, bled, and lost everything on ground they had called home for generations. Among them were the Esparza brothers<\/strong> and Juan Nepomuceno Segu\u00edn<\/strong>.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Tejanos at the Alamo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1836, Texas was not a blank frontier. It was home to Tejanos<\/strong> \u2013 Spanish-speaking, Catholic families whose roots in Texas went back to the 1600’s Spanish colonial era: mission builders, soldiers, ranchers, and town leaders. They are the direct descendants of the Conquistadors and the Indigenous Indian tribes of Texas. The word “Texas” <\/strong>means “friends” or “allies”<\/strong> coming from the Caddo Native American word “<\/em>taysha<\/em>“<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These original mixed “Mestizo<\/em>” families had:<\/p>\n\n\n\n