[Publius6961]

Was it the Discovery Channel that just rewrote Custers battle at the Little Big Horn with modern forensic evidence ? They were going to do the same thing to the Alamo so watch out for another attack on an American Icon.

Done deal.

I saw it and it was pretty disgusting.
Davy Crocket tried to "sneak out" and was shot like a dog out in a field somewhere.

All based on an apparent forgery that was painfully contrived to seem authentic, and allowing a series of "ifs" to be true...

They cobbled together a revised picture of the battle that is right up there with Second Hand Smoke, Global Warming and Africa's "Eve".

[tubebender]

They did the same thing on Custers Battle but the Alamo story line sounds like a real hack job.

[Liberal Classic]

I saw it and it was pretty disgusting. Davy Crocket tried to "sneak out" and was shot like a dog out in a field somewhere.

I saw this show last night, and I didn't come away with this impression.

The show did suggest a group of fifty men or so might have tried to retreat to Old San Antonio Road, but were cut down by cavalry. However, I don't remember the show saying that Crockett was with them.

It did suggest that near the end of the siege Crockett was taken prisoner and brough before General Santa Anna, who ordered him summarily executed. There were no details of his capture but it was not suggested that he had surrendered, only was captured and executed on the spot. If this is true, which I don't necessarily believe, it doesn't lessen my view of Crockett personally, or the defenders of the Alamo generally.