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Should be interesting to see if they incorporate the Mexican officer's diary into their interpretation.

Please elaborate...I am interested.

The Men Behind the Alamo Diary Alumni Charles Tate and Tom Hicks Donate Rare Manuscript to UT

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No matter where the diary ends up, a debate over its authenticity is likely to continue. Crockett's diehard fans have denounced it as a 20th century forgery, an elaborate hoax that disputes their belief that the coonskin-capped frontiersman went down fighting at the Alamo in March 1836.
But many academics accept it as a circa 1840 narrative penned or dictated in Mexico City's Inquisition Prison by Lt. Col. Jose Enrique de la Pena, who was jailed for backing the wrong general-politician after the Texas War of Independence.
Only a page of the diary is devoted to Crockett's demise; the rest of the 200 pages detail de la Pena's complaints about his superiors' incompetence and cruelty.
But it is that one page that most interests many Texans.
According to de la Pena, Crockett and six others were captured after the Alamo "skirmish" and brought before Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, who ordered them executed. When a unit of engineers didn't budge, officers aiming to please the general moved in.
"They thrust themselves forward, in order to flatter their commander, and with swords in hand, fell upon these unfortunate, defenseless men just as a tiger leaps upon his prey," the account says.

From Texas may lose treasured Alamo diary in auction

According to recently uncovered diary penned by a Mexican officer, Davy Crockett did not die in battle defending the Alamo, but rather was executed after the battle. The officer pays tribute to Crockett and his fellow captives by stating, "these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers."