Remember The Alamo! (166 Men Died For Freedom - March 6, 1836)

March 6, 2009 | Robert A Cook

[Tolkien]

Home of the Brave...

[Figment]

Amen

[Figment]

Same here vet. A lot of those Tennesseans at the Alamo were from Madison County and Chester County

[Figment]

Nice map of the Republic of Texas, but I think they originally annexed everything west to the Pacific and everything south to Central America. Couldn’t enforce it obviously

[penelopesire]

Remember the Angel of Goliad too!

Goliad’s Balm

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/goliadangel.htm

[SaxxonWoods]

Alamo Defender.

Miller, Thomas R. (Tennessee)

IIRC, Thomas had relocated to Gonzales, Texas prior to joining the force at the Alamo.

I salute my kin...

[ansel12]

I am a Texan and every April 30th I also give a nod to the French Foreign Legion by raising a glass to the men at Camerone, Mexico, 1862.

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[BlessingsofLiberty]

Remember The Alamo!!

[rdl6989]

bttt

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Great list,,,

I saw one that had (Unknown Louisiana),,,(4-5?)...

[Vigilanteman]

Thank you for posting. Note that most of those listing a Texas birthplace also have Hispanic names. Texas would, of course, been part of Mexico when they were born and these men would have been the modern equivalents of Americans of Hispanic background who value what America stands for more that the views of what their racial identity assigns them to think by Mecha and La Raza.

[Bender2]

We had a little skirmish earlier at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200661/posts over whether the Alamo was reverent or not--

Decide for yourself... who won

[EternalVigilance]

A BUMP for Texas.

[mad_as_he$$]

I have relatives that have lived in that part of Texas for the better part of 100 years. One of them was an amateur historian and studied the Alamo. She felt that the Mexicans lost more like 600-700 men. This is based upon local stories of how big the cemetery was and how many bodies were thrown into graves. Her other point was that no army could do a frontal assault on that type of fortification and only lose 300 men. She always said Crocket survived and faced Santa Ana and was then executed. Many Mexicans in the area thought it was wrong to execute the survivors because they fought with honor.

In any case the details are not that important to me. The fact that they drew a line and placed their lives on it - even though they thought help was on the way - is the important thing. They had ample opportunity to surrender and did not. The other point that many overlook is that many - mostly the Tennesseans came because they felt their way of life was being destroyed and they were just pissed and felt out of place. They just wanted a fight. Seems many feel that way today.

Remember the Alamo.

Remember Goliad.

And always remember the great victory at San Jacinto.

[Redbob]

Cecil Adams (wtf is he?) is free to make up whatever story he likes - but he'd best not try to sell this one in Texas.

By most contemporaneous accounts (note to Cecil: this means "written at that time"), the Alamo had been under seige for several days prior to Santa Anna's arrival by a force of perhaps 1500, and they had tried several assaults on the Alamo without success.

Read the letters from Col. Wm. Travis from that time. The most interesting one says, indicating that some things in San Antonio haven't changed from his day to this:

"The citizens of this municipality are all our enemies except those who have joined us heretofore; we have but three Mexicans now in the fort; those who have not joined us in this extremity, should be declared public enemies, and their property should aid in paying the expenses of the war."

[Robert A Cook PE]

Thank you!

[Robert A Cook PE]

Interesting note: That letter, specifically written BY a witness INSIDE that Alamo (the commander of the garrison) did call out the “continual Bombardment & cannonade” he was subjected to.

Definitely not rifle (musket) fire alone.

So, what are we to make of the single report that claims no cannon reached the site until after the Alamo was taken by the Mexicans? If the commander were exaggerating - possible, nut he equally likely to be immediately called out for his exaggerations (his fears!) as a liar by his own commander, his own men, and his contemporaries had he survived the battle!