182-250 Americans died at the Alamo. 600 Mexicans were killed with an estimated 1,200 wounded out of an attacking force of a little 1,400. I’d say that’s a Texas style ass kickin’.
Of course with the current immigration bill pending, now it would look more like Viva Max starring Peter Ustinov. He retakes the Alamo and the Feds send in the NG. But as to not start an international incident, they have no ammunition.
Agreed.
It’s comparable to the Greek Battle of Thermopylae some 2500 years ago where the samll band of Spartans and other Greek soldiers held off thousands and thousands of Persian invaders.
http://www.thefiringline.com/HCI/molon_labe.htm
Of course you have probably already seen the movie “300” T
Your casualty figures for the Mexicans are probably overstated.
Wikipedia: After the battle, Santa Anna reported that he had suffered 70 dead and 300 wounded, while many Texian accounts claim that as many as 1,500 Mexican lives were lost. While many quickly dismiss Santa Anna’s account as being unrealistic (since Santa Anna had plenty of reasons to lie about the number of men he lost), the Texian account of 1,500 dead also lacks logic. Most Alamo historians agree that the Mexican attack force consisted of between 1,400 and 1,600 men, so a count of 1,500 sounds improbable, although 1,500 killed during the entire time of the siege could well have been achieved. The accounts most commonly accepted by historians are the ones that place the number of Mexican dead around 200 and the number of initial Mexican wounded around 400. These losses (at about 43% casualties) would have been considered catastrophic by the Mexican Army, while still being realistic to today’s historians.