Remember the Alamo!

[scattershot]

In line with a previous thread, today, March 6, 1836, is the day that the Alamo was finally overrun by Santa Ana and the Mexican Army. All the defenders were killed, including seven who were put to death after the battle on Santa Ana's orders.

 

[Xfuzz]

 

[pawncop]

God bless them and may we remember their courage and committment to liberty and freedom.

 

[Chromedhearts]

Is there any documentation as to who those seven were?

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

The real truth of who survived the Alamo...

..is forever lost to history. Many did escape the final assault serving as couriers, harbingers for supplies, and so on.
Besides Mrs. Dickenson, Col. Travis' slave, and Moses Rose there are reports and accounts of others.
There were those who considered Mr. Rose a coward; I do not. It was his initial reports of what was gong on that led to some of what we know today.
Like I said in a previous post, the only "winner" at the Alamo was the traitorous Santa Anna. Everyone else, dead or survived, Texain, Tejano, or Mexican, was a victim. And while that battle was in another time and another place, the worst we and our successors can do is forget or "clean up" what happened there and at Goliad.
Santa Anna was a tyrant to everyone, he was not a man of honor, and he should be forever regarded to the flames of perdition where all tyrants so rightly belong.

 

[scattershot]

Rumor has it that one of them was Davy Crockett, based on a Mexican officer's description of "a large rugged man in buckskin clothing", but at the time that could have been just about anyone.

 

[moonclip]

Things haven't changed much in 174 years.

......moon

 

[sipowicz]

Yes they have....instead of fighting them off, our leaders are giving them our country...

 

[moonclip]

True, but either way, they're still attacking and overrunning the Republic.

......moon

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Strictly speaking, Santa Anna wasn't a traitor in 1836, it was the Texans who were rebelling aginst their legal government. At the start of the Mexican War he made a deal with the U.S. that if they let him through the blockade he would seize power and deal with the United States. He reneged of course. In the 1850s Santa Anna was tried for treason in absentia by the Mexican Government. He spent much of the 1860s in exile-in New York City.