Not the Alamo I know

Dallas Morning News ^ | 6/3/2007 | Rod Dreher

[Vanders9]

Storming fortified positions is never an easy thing, and almost always costly.

[Vanders9]

Hmm....maybe the French used their Foreign Legion? :)

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Clemenza]

As someone who has spent alot of time in Mexico, and talked with many Mexicans, you folks should know that after General Huerta, Santa Anna is the most hated man in Mexican history. Who could love a man who had a funeral procession for his leg, hated Indians (in a nation where the majority of the population is of Indian ancestry), and LOST A THIRD OF HIS COUNTRY DUE LARGELY TO INCOMPETANCE!

In the end, Santa Anna's only friend was fellow Mason Sam Houston, who spared his life after JLdeSA gave Sam the Masonic handshake of distress.

[Old Student]

“Storming fortified positions is never an easy thing, and almost always costly.”

Particularly when unnecessary. Santa Anna could easily have left a blocking force to keep the Alamo’s defenders penned up inside, and gone on to crush the Texians elsewhere, then come back to deal with them.

Instead, he gave the Texians a rallying cry that still scares the Mexicans.