Alamo.
The Alamo was one of history’s most heroic battles, the modern world’s Thermopylae and the epic fight by those 185 Texans so devastated the Mexican army and tied it up for so long, that it won the war, when the Texans were outnumbered and attacked the Army of Mexico only weeks later, and defeated it, it was those 185 men at the Alamo that made San Jacinto possible.
Texas won that war, and became a nation.
You think that was something shameful, bad, something you like to mock? Then you are more gone than was at first obvious.