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To: treetopsandroofs
"I read about this more than 10 years ago, no one gave it much credence back then...."

I thought the same thing. I always wondered how the mexicans would have known or cared who the heck Davy Crockett was in the first place.

25 posted on 08/16/2011 6:24:41 PM PDT by Flag_This (Real presidents don't bow.)
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To: Flag_This

Davy Crocket was a Tennessean

of course the Mexicans knew and cared..


30 posted on 08/16/2011 6:37:27 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Flag_This

“I thought the same thing. I always wondered how the mexicans would have known or cared who the heck Davy Crockett was in the first place.”

FWIW, he was well known at the time, an accomplished author, even if his autobiography was ghost-written, had been on a book tour back east and arrived in Little Rock Arkansas a few months earlier and the newspapers reported hundreds of people turning out to see him.

At least one of the soldiers was related to one of the defenders and asked for and received the body to give it a burial rather than a bonfire.

Certainly the Mexican soldiers might have heard who they had killed and written about it.


45 posted on 08/16/2011 7:22:22 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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