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Alamo : Davy Crockett's defiant stand at the Alamo 'lasted just 20 minutes', claim historians
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| 08/16/2011
| Mail Foreign Service
Posted on 08/16/2011 6:00:33 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Last stand: Mexican soldiers advance on the fort at the Alamo in the 1960 film
To: SeekAndFind
Evidence? The bound manuscript of Lieutenant Colonel Jose Enrique de la Pena, who fought at the Alamo. The contentious account claims Mexican soldiers captured Crockett and several others and hacked them to death
To: SeekAndFind
Wow we should just embrace what the victors had to say over anything else I suppose. No way they would have lied to make themselves look better eh?
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:05:04 PM PDT
by
Mmogamer
(I refudiate the lamestream media, leftists and their prevaricutions.)
To: SeekAndFind
This is a really stupid, pointless article. Is there some move on to denigrate Texas by vague, silly stories, and thereby denigrate Rick Perry?
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:07:29 PM PDT
by
SuzyQue
To: SeekAndFind
Slaughtered to the last man. . It makes little difference how they were slaughtered.
Perhaps they did die in their beds as the result of Mexican perfidy . That doesn’t make the Americans look bad. More shame to the Mexicans.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:07:38 PM PDT
by
Venturer
To: Mmogamer
Because another Cowboy Texan jumped in to the Presidential race, the MSM just had to add this story to bring the Pride of Texas down.
To: SeekAndFind
I read about this more than 10 years ago, no one gave it much credence back then....
I think I remember most accounts had Bowie bayonetted in bed, Disney had him using 2 pistols and 2 knives first.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:09:21 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:10:12 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: treetopsandroofs
Myth or reality? Actor John Wayne, left, as Davy Crockett in the 1960 classic western The Alamo. A new book has cast doubt on the legend of the fort's heroic defense
To: SeekAndFind
Yes, we’re going to start reading about any crazy crime that happens in Texas again.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:11:05 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: SeekAndFind
Wonder would it have been different if he had the technology of a *flash mob*?
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:11:04 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
To: SeekAndFind
Well, he told US. Now ask him about the Charge of the Light
Brigade. And the American Revolution. And the War of 1812. And Lend-Lease. And on and on and on . . .
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:11:33 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(I may not be much, but I raised a U.S. Marine.)
To: SeekAndFind
A very great historian once pointed out that it is extremely important that a people in the process of being vanquished have their early heroic figures degraded. For example, why should we believe the "recently discovered" Mexican version in favor of the traditional version? Because the Anglo is currently in the process of being conquered by the Mexican.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:11:52 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: SeekAndFind
Using recently discovered Mexican accounts of the battle....well then, that settles that, the author will now discuss how the US should "give CA back to Mexico" in his next book because recently he met Jose Luis Rodriguez O'Leary and his virgin mother in downtown LA while purchasing money orders to send back to his other mother in Guadalajara and he said so.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:13:40 PM PDT
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: SeekAndFind
KIng of the Hill trashed these people fifteen years ago. Why is this in the news AGAIN?
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:14:27 PM PDT
by
dangus
To: SuzyQue
>This is a really stupid, pointless article. Is there some move on to denigrate Texas by vague, silly stories, and thereby denigrate Rick Perry?<
Nah. Unless you’re not an FR addict, The Daily Mail leans to the right, just like the Telegraph. You can count this to one of the many historical controversies bunched with the Chinese discovering America, Bigfoots ambushed a group of miners in their log cabin for an entire night and Obama really graduating from a university.
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:14:45 PM PDT
by
max americana
(FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
To: SeekAndFind
Does this mean that the Texans lost their war for independence and that Texas belongs to Mexico??
Just wondering? It appears that Texas history is being rewritten. I was wondering how the new version ended??
To: SeekAndFind
I found this version a little more real-world believable than Fess Parker going down swinging Betsy (but not “Old Betsy”) butt-end into the Mexicans.
I wonder how much of this is new in the book? Seriously, this news has been out for quite some time. I see there’s another book from 2003, “Alamo Traces: New Evidence and New Conclusions.”
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:19:23 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Venturer
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posted on
08/16/2011 6:19:47 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin)
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