[VOA]

Two things that freaked me out about The Alamom when I visited in 1996:

1. The number of Spanish/Hispanic names of the defenders on the wall

2. The story of the small band that sneaked into the compound to meet their
fate with the defenders.

And I'd never heard these things even though I grew up one state away (Oklahoma)
and was a pretty enthusiastic student in history classes.

[SAMWolf]

There were a lot of Mexicans who didn't like the idea of Santa Anna's dictatorship and fought against him.

[docmcb]

It would be hard to find a beter example of nobility than the thirty-two men from Gonzales who entered the Alamo midway through the siege. Except maybe the courier James Bonham who rode back into the Alamo to tell them that the relief force they were counting on, under Fannin, wasn't going to arrive.