When it appeared that the bastions could be held no longer, the defenders had retreated with the women and children into the mission proper as Santa Anna prepared his finial assault. It was at this critical juncture that the Mexican were taken from behind by a massive assault of the Askari Comanche. Their approach had been skillfully concealed by their native field-craft, and their onslaught so sudden and well coordinated that the Mexicans parted as waves striking a great boulder. Recoiling in utter disarray the Mexican force abandon all of their stores as well as war plans and paper, including a large treasure of silver and gold. The lifting of the siege of the Alamo would prove to be critical in the eventual victory of the Texans. The Mexican will to fight seemed to have been broken, and the confidence of their leader Santa Anna. Unable to shake off the harassment of the Askari Comanche, the Mexicans continued to take great losses until their where finally surrounded by a combined force of the Freie Korps and Askari Comanche at San Jacinto in late April 1836. Exhausted, running low on all military supplies an on the verge of starvation, into did not take long to finally brake the will of the General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. A sudden charge and a withering volley from the Askari Comanche on the 21st of April 1836, brought the final collapse of the Mexican column.		General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna sued for an end to the war by releasing all claim of Mexico to lands North of the Rio Grande and giving to the new republic of Der freie Zustand van Texas all lands and properties once held by Mexico, in exchange for safe passage to the South shore of the same river. A sudden charge and a withering volley from the Askari Comanche on the 21st of April 1836, brought the final collapse of the Mexican column. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna sued for an end to the war by releasing all claim of Mexico to lands North of the Rio Grande and giving to the new republic of Der freie Zustand van Texas all lands and properties once held by Mexico, in exchange for safe passage to the South shore of the same river.