Thanks for posting I love the Alamo. The first time I visited the Alamo with my Family, I was about 8 years old. My Dad and I walked through the big wooden doors hand in hand. I saw this man leaning against the wall dressed in decorative buckskin smoking a rolled cig (You can't smoke inside the mission), black hair in a pony tail. I pull Dad's hand saying, "Who is that in standing there in buckskin? He responded,"Thiers no one standing there in buckskin." The man looked at me pushed off the wall thumped his Cig on the ground put it out with his foot turned and walked into a room to his left and was gone.. I kid you not .
I thought when I was there, I saw it all. I did miss Travis's line, Crockett's death spot and Travis's letter. How ever I did see everything else. Thanks. That day they were having a reenact to show medicine and weapons of the time. I really enjoyed the long barracks. Afterward, I went to the Chapel where defenders ashes are. Then later that night we went on ghost tour of San Antonio, which was cool. Telling were Crocketts ghost had been seen etc
I know it's not the real Alamo but what's the REAL status of Alamo Village near Brackettville where the John Wayne movie version of the battle was made. I've "heard" conflicting stories of it reopening to it being left to degrade into a pile of rubble. I have no idea what to believe but it would be a great loss to such an iconic place even though it's just a movie set.
All that rich history is fabulous, but it really was a massacre, to say that between 600 and 1000 soldiers died, is really to report said massacre, abandoned by their compatriots to their fate and With the threat that they would surrender, they would be shot... According to the Mexican letters, they waited for them to give up due to lack of food for 11 days, on the 12th they stormed the Alamo and shot all the men inside, they let the women and children out... The United States speaks of 300 soldiers, the Mexicans were close to 500 and they all died, the Mexican casualties do not exceed 60, I am not Mexican, but there was no living taxan... Who Did you make that account so favorable and heroic?
Sad place, Travis committed suicide at the north wall, when he saw all was lost, and Davy Crockett surrendered to the Mexicans, only to be killed moments later. Bowie died on his cot, never knowing what happened to him..some heroes!
Alright dude, I know you're just a troll... But Travis was shot in the head by a Mexican soldier early into the battle. Bowie killed around 10 - 20 Mexican soldiers in his room before he was stabbed to death. Crockett, while he did surrender, he refused to submit to Santa Anna, which led to his execution.
