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Jose Enrique de la Peña (1807-1840) was a colonel in the Mexican Army. Under General Antonio López de Santa Anna, de la Peña participated in the Battle of the Alamo .
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.
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.
Nov 20, 1981 · One of the longest and possibly most objective accounts of the Alamo’s last stand was written by one José Enrique de la Peña, a lieutenant colonel with the forces of the Mexican president-general Santa Anna. He was critical of the leadership on both sides, particularly his own.
Sep 21, 1975 · The diary, written in Spanish almost 140 years ago by Jose Enrique de la Pena, a lieutenant colonel in Santa Ana's army, was in private hands for years but now has been translated into...
May 14, 2004 · At the center of the debate is an account of the Texas rebellion of 1835-’36 by José Enrique de la Peña, an officer in the Mexican army who witnessed much of the conflict, including the battle of the Alamo.
Mar 25, 2018 · Jose Enrique de la Peña. De la Peña was a mid-level officer in Santa Anna’s army. He later allegedly wrote a diary, not found and published until 1955, about his experiences at the Alamo. In it, he claims that the “well-known” David Crockett was one of seven men taken prisoner.
