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And like 9-11, what is lost is the massacre at Goliad - after the Alamo, when the Texan force surrendered.

"After a delay of about five days following Houston's order, Fannin finally began his retreat. It was not long, however, before the Texans found themselves surrounded on open prairie. Several attacks by Urrea resulted each time in the Mexicans being repulsed by the deadly fire of the Texans. By dusk, the Texans had lost about sixty men killed or wounded against some 200 of the Mexicans.

Still heavily outnumbered and with no water and few supplies, the Texans waved the white flag of truce the following morning. Believing that they would be taken captive and eventually returned to their homes, the Texans surrendered the morning of March 20. The were escorted back to Goliad as prisoners.

When news of their capture reached Santa Anna, however, he was furious that the Texans had not been executed on the spot. Citing a recently passed law that all foreigners taken under arms would be treated as pirates and executed, Santa Anna sent orders to execute the Goliad prisoners.

Santa Anna's orders were followed. On Palm Sunday, the 27th of March, the prisoners were divided into three groups, marched onto open prairie, and shot. Thus, all of Fannin's command except a few that managed to escape and several physicians and others deemed useful by the Mexicans, were massacred, collected into piles, and burned.

Isn't the surrender of the men at the Alamo not accepted? The history channel did a documentary where the "surrender" is more a product of mexican revisionism to avoid the notion of the "grigos" dying defending the Alamo.

Disney is not the only group engaged in revisionist history.

Even the NEA has a school project which encourages students to change the face on the 20 dollar bill.

"And like 9-11, what is lost is the massacre at Goliad"

No, it wasn't lost. It was there, and it was one of the things that showed Santa Anna to be the fiend he was.

And for the others, another false rumor is that Crockett surrendered in this movie. He didn't. He stood his ground and charged right back as he and a few others remaining were charged upon by overwhelming #s. They then show him dying bravely and very honorably, mocking Santa Anna.

I can't stand BB Thornton and wasn't thrilled with a few lines, but even the John Wayne version I watched the night before showed Crockett's inner struggle over whether or not to fight. It also showed the drinking problem of Bowie's.