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- There is no evidence Davy Crockett went down fighting, as John Wayne famously did in his 1960 movie The Alamo, a font of misinformation; there is ample testimony from Mexican soldiers that Crockett surrendered and was executed. The battle, in fact, should never have been fought.
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Feb 28, 2022 · The Many Myths of the Alamo. Much of what was long accepted as true about the Alamo is anything but. For starters, there was no need to fight the battle in the first place. The defenders did not try to hold off Santa Anna’s forces in a bid to buy Sam Houston time to raise a Texan army.
Apr 13, 2019 · Many of the aforementioned “facts” about the battle contain grains of truth, but much of them are clear embellishments. First and foremost is the falsehood that the defenders of the Alamo were righteous revolutionaries oppressed by the tyrannical Mexican regime.
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Sep 22, 2024 · The basic story of the Alamo is that rebellious Texans captured the city of San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas) in a battle in December 1835. Afterward, they fortified the Alamo, a fortress-like former mission in the center of town.
- The Battle Was An Intentional Last Stand
- Travis and Bowie Fought For Command
- Bowie Was A Drunk
- Travis Drew A Line in The Sand
- The Battle Was Fought in The Darkness Before Dawn
- Reinforcements Were Scarce
- The Defenders Fought to The Death For Every Inch
- There Were Fewer Than 200 Texian Defenders
- Davy Crockett Entertained The Defenders with His Fiddle
- Davy Crockett Was Executed After Surrendering
That the men of the Alamo deliberately sacrificed their lives for Texas is a popular conceit, especially in early novels and dramatizations. It helps assuage the fact that the Alamo’s commander, Lt. Col. William Barret Travis, lost his fort, flags, artillery and all of his men in less than two weeks. If he had intended to do these things with some ...
This is a favorite sidebar in Alamo films, adding drama to otherwise listless screenplays. It usually amounts to the “man’s man” Bowie and the “young upstart” Travis snarling at one another over several tiresome scenes. In February 1836, about 10 days before the Mexican army’s arrival, Colonel James C. Neill, commander of the San Antonio post, was ...
Bowie went on a bit of a tear after his election as commander of the Alamo’s volunteers (see myth No. 2). This has proven a popular theme in Alamo films. Somehow Bowie as an obnoxious drunk contributes to his tough guy persona in movies. One film actually depicts Bowie being carried around the compound on his sickbed while holding a jug, just so no...
William P. Zuber spun this most famous tale of the Alamo in 1873 in what he termed “a phenomenal refreshment of my memory,” after reading about early Texas history in the Texas Almanac. He told of Travis receiving word there would be no help for the Alamo. Travis responded by assembling the garrison, explaining the situation and their somewhat limi...
The Alamo battle began in the morning, but just how early is up to conjecture. “Eyewitness” accounts give the time as anything from 2 to 6 a.m. John Wayne, in his 1960 epic The Alamo, filmed the battle under clear blue Texas skies. Apparently he felt that viewers, after sitting through two hours of Cold War metaphors, should actually see the action...
A certain “survivors’ guilt” that Texas failed Travis and his men plays a part in many renditions of the Alamo story. Travis sent out several appeals for assistance before and during the 13-day siege. He needed reinforcements to break the siege from the outside, not to fill the Alamo with more men to stretch their already limited supplies and provi...
The traditional view of the Alamo battle is that of a “last stand,” in every sense of the term. Books and films portray a tenacious group defense followed by dramatic individual last stands by defenders once all hope is lost. Actually, the men of the Alamo, as outnumbered as they were, had no prospect of victory fighting from a strictly defensive p...
The number of Texians who defended and/or died at the Alamo remains in debate, as does use of the word “Texians” itself. Only a few defenders were born in Texas. The vast majority hailed from the United States, others from Europe or Mexico. Historians typically place the number of defenders between 182 and 189. But Tom Lindley, who spent years of m...
Susan Sterling, granddaughter of Alamo survivor Susanna Dickinson, related stories her grandmother told of Crockett playing his fiddle to cheer the spirits of the Alamo garrison. A musical Crockett is also a popular figure in art and film. In The Alamo (2004), Billy Bob Thornton portrayed Crockett as a violin virtuoso. Perhaps Davy did play the fid...
The alpha and omega of this tale is the handwritten diary of Mexican Lieutenant José Enrique de la Peña, part of the de la Peña papers at the Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. However, there is no record of this illuminating “diary” before 1955, and not one page of it is in de la Peña’s authenticated handwriting. A...
The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States).
But how much of the legend is fact, and how much is myth? A popular telling of the battle holds that in early 1836 a small group of brave Texans defended the mission-fort known as the Alamo against thousands of Mexican soldiers, knowing it meant certain death.
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