from Gonzales (led by former Alamo couriers Alsbury and Sutherland). They proceeded toward the Alamo. There they waited on the Cibolo Creek to team up with Fannin. The Alamo fell before they could reach it. Regrouping in Gonzales and on to San Jacinto, Texas The news of the fall of Béxar and Battle of the Alamo was overwhelming for the Texans. A frantic flee eastward began immediately after receiving the fateful news at Gonzales in March 1836. The Tejano volunteers now being reassembled at Gonzales would ride with Captain Flores. Salvador Flores had accepted Sam Houston's orders during this Runaway Scrape. As troops would march away from Gonzales, Salvador Flores along with a group of volunteers formed the rear guard that protected the fleeing families and proceeded westward to secure the lower ranches of San Antonio. The forces then split. Salvador maintained this position offering protection from Mexican and Indian attack, while his relatives Capt. Manuel Flores, Lieutenant Nepomuceno Flores, left with Seguin to regroup a company of men that followed Houston toward east Texas and on to San Jacinto. Texas Republic 1836–1842 In late 1836, Salvador Flores was Captain of Company C, which served the citizens of Texas, much like a ranging company. Later in 1839, Flores would serve the Republic of Texas, as 1st Lt. in Col. Juan N. Seguin's Company. Salvador Flores would protect the colonists as a participant in the Henry Karnes campaign against the hostile Comanche Indians. As a member of the Karnes Company, he would team up with Mathew Caldwell's Rangers in the pursuit of Vincente Cordova. Again he would be involved in 1842 in organizing San Antonio citizens concerned with the imminent re-invasion by Mexico. Assigned as Captain by Mayor John William Smith, he would command 100 local Tejanos against the Mexican invaders led by General Adrián Woll. Later life and family Flores married Conception Rojo on September 30, 1848, in San Antonio, and they had two children. Salvador Flores spent the remainder of his life in and around the now-U.S. city of San Antonio, Texas. He died on January 17, 1855, in that city. Juan Seguin was appointed administrator of his holdings and became the guardian of his family. In 1858, he filed a probate for the Flores family. Legacy His skills and tactics demonstrated on horseback would be those modeled by the Texas Rangers. In later years, the Flores descendants would