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=> In February 1836, David Crockett, Jim Bowie, Wm B Travis and a couple hundred 'Texicans' endured a siege to the death at the Alamo.They knew they were all going to die, but they needed to buy Sam Houston time to get better organized over east at San Jacinto. It was the price they were willing to pay for the greater cause. => In some twisted way, that is what the radical left has been doing for their cause ever since election day 2016. They had expected to destroy their enemy LONG before now. Having failed miserably (by the Grace...

Texans cherish the memory of Davy Crockett's heroic death at the Alamo in 1836 but few know what led him there or why he fought so valiantly. Throughout his life, Davy Crockett was renowned for his love of liberty and fierce loyalty to the Constitution. Originally a Democrat, Crockett found he could no longer identify with the party's positions which he believed were straying from our country's founding principles. As a man who believed in individual liberty and the principle of congressional restraint this shift was unacceptable to him. He left the party in 1833 and joined the Whig party...

Okay, FRiend, just sit yourself down and listen to the way Davy Crockett (1835 or early 1836) got himself and his Tennessee volunteers into Texas on the way to the Alamo.You see, at that time there were no super highways and bridges, so the way you got over the rivers was by ferry. Also at that time the Red River was considered to be the Texas border. But there were a family/group of thugs, highway robbers and murderers that lived in Miller County (now Texarkana) who had heard that the Crockett party would be coming their way. This group of...