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Did they find it in the basement?!
Can you say Bocci...
Pick up your balls and load up your cannon...
Technically, the battle didn't kill 180 Texans. It killed some of them. But then Santa Anna ordered the massacre of the surviving prisoners, most of them wounded. That, plus the massacre of prisoners at Goliad, is why Mexico was whipped by the Texicans. Santa Anna thought brutality and terror would break the rebels.
Oops.
When news of the twin massacres got out, every Texican who could carry a rifle flocked to Sam Houston. The wonder is that Santa Anna wasn't summarily executed at San Jacinto. I guess some officers with their wits about them got to him first. Under the circumstances, Santa Anna thought it prudent to "negotiate" a surrender and recognition of Texas independence.
The Texas one was bigger.
This changes everything I thought I knew about the Alamo.
You can’t “undersell” it?
When I was a kid, growing up in Portsmouth Virginia, a friend of mine found an American canon ball from the Battle of Craney Island (June 22, 1813) from the War of 1812. Made the local newspaper.
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Poorly written article. I am reading along just fine and the when I get here:
““The first one we found, I thought, there’s no way in the world we just found a cannonball from 190 years ago,” Kolby Lanham, the Alamo’s senior researcher and historian, said in a statement. “And then fast forward just a couple of months, and we found a second one. It’s just a huge kind of once-in-a-lifetime deal—but obviously it’s happened twice.” “
Then I confused. Which ones were Texan and with ones were Mexican? Did they find 2 the first time. And then two again. Or did they find one and then the other. Or some other combo. Very poor writing.