Francita Alavez's Last Name

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Francita Alavez went to Texas in March 1836. Her name can be said in many different ways Francita, Francisca, Panchita, or Panchita and her last name can also be said in many different ways Alaves, Alaves, Alvarez.She was known, by the Texans, as a "high bred beauty". Her real last name and birthplace are unknown to us. Francita was with cap. Alavez in Texas,most people thought she was his wife. Later in 1935 people discovered that the captain already had a legitimate wife named María Agustina de Pozo who was abandoned on 1834.
At El Cópano, she combined her mercy on the soldiers humanity with her head-strong personality to persuade important Mexican officials to treat the captured Texian prisoners nicer. When eighty soldiers of Major William Miller and Nashville Battalion were captured by Urrea's soldiers, she persuaded the Mexican soldiers to loosen the bonds on the men's hands and to give them something to eat and drink.
In Victoria, where her soulmate was left in charge, she make it that the twenty six Texian boat builders and workers there would be let free and not killed.She saved many people's lives that day.Francita went with cap Alavez to mexico city that she help the texan that were held there. Then cap Alavez left her there broke with nothing but the clothes on her back. Having nothing the texans remembered the kindness that she
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As a heroine of the Texas Revolution and the angel of goliad. Her death is unknown to the world. Francita is a great heroine that changed the lives of many people and how they think. She had a great legacy of the angel of goliad. Francita was a significant person to the independence of Texas. She always had a nice personality and was kind to everyone she meets. She befriended everyone and helped a lot of people live to not be executed from the war. She helped people at goliad out of the kindness in her heart and helped more later in her life until she died from an unknown

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