Thanks for the reminder, because I had forgotten:o . Long live Jim Bowie, Davey Crockett and all the other brave White men that fell that day.

Now we have to deal with the mexican hordes invading our country, or we'll have many Alamo situations on our hands.

I had almost forgot that today, March 6, is the day that the Alamo, defended by 183 brave Texans, fell to the Mexican hordes after a 13 day seige. REMEMBER THE ALAMO!!!

If those heros could come back to life and walk around Texas today I'm sure they would think their efforts were in vain and all was lost in that conflict.

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Here is a list.

http://www.alamodescendants.org/Htm%20Pages/alamo_defenders.htm

One of my grandfathers died at the Alamo and even a cousin or two I don’t remember there names off hand but they are somewhere in my archives.

Another one of my grandfathers Andrew Jackson Sowell was there but missed the final battle. He went on to kick some major ass in other places and wrote several great books on Texas history.

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/SS/fso12.html
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bhughes/AndrewJacksonSowell.html

Arktos, If you have ancestors so closely tied to the Texas revolution, maybe you, or someone in your family looked into the Mexican corporal who kept a diary and wrote in it that 7 "tejanos" surrendered, one of them claimed to be Davy Crockett (my hero), who pleaded for thier lives.

I have always wondered about that - historians can't just dismiss a soldier's diary simply because it suggests an unwanted scenario, but, it doesn't necessarily meant it is the gospel truth, either. If you all did any research on that corporal, please share with us anything that came of it. Thanks.

~ To Contumacyman ~

Ill look into it and if I hear anything significant Ill get back to you but I’m almost certain most everyone in my family believes he/they all died in battle.

As for myself at this point I think James Atkins Shackford says it best.

"Too much has been made over the details of how David died at the Alamo. Such details are not important. What is important is that he died as he had lived. His life was one of indomitable bravery; his death was a death of intrepid courage. His life was one of wholehearted dedication to his concepts of liberty. He died staking his life against what he regarded as intolerable tyranny."

-- James Atkins Shackford, "David Crockett: The Man and the Legend."

~ And remember this ~

On the evening of March 3rd during a lull in Mexican cannonading, Col. Travis assembled his men for a conference. In an impassioned speech he told them what they already knew - they were doomed. It was now a matter of HOW they died. Dramatically and filled with emotional fervor he took his sword and drew a long line across the dirt floor of the fort. He gave the men a choice. They could cross the line and die fighting, die a hero's death, or they could surrender, or they could try to escape under the cover of the coming night and take their chances. One hundred and eighty-two men did cross the line and vowed to fight unto death. Only one, a certain Moses Rose (jew), did not cross the line.

-- Ben Klassen

~ Other accounts ~

"Some seven men survived the general carnage and, under the protection of General Castrillón, they were brought before Santa Ana. Among them ... was the naturalist David Crockett, well known in North America for his unusual adventures ... Santa Ana answered Castrillón's intervention on Crockett's behalf with a gesture of indignation, and ... ordered his execution ... several officers who were around the president and who, perhaps, had not been present during the moment of danger ... thrust themselves forward, ... and with swords in hand, fell upon these unfortunate, defenseless men just as a tiger leaps upon its prey. Though tortured before they were killed, these unfortunates died without complaining and without humiliating themselves before their torturers."

-- José Enrique de la Peña. "With Santa Ana in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution."

"CROCKETT was found in an angle made by two houses, lying on his back, a frown on his brow, a smile of scorn on his lips -- his knife in hand, a dead Mexican lying across his body, and twenty-two more lying pell-mell before him in the angle. Glory enough this -- for one day!"

-- The Columbian Centinal (from a description by Joe, Travis' slave and Alamo
survivor)

"(Santa Ana) was then conducted to the body of (Crockett). This man lay with his face upward, and his body was covered by those of many Mexicans who had fallen upon him. His face was florid, like that of a living man; and he looked like a healthy man asleep. Santa Ana viewed him for a few moments, thrust his sword through him and turned away."

-- Saldigua, Mexican officer, from "Texas: An Album of History," by James Haley, 1985.

"He was a tall American of rather dark complexion and had on a long buckskin coat and a round cap without any bill, made out of fox skin with the long tail hanging down his back. This man apparently had a charmed life. Of the many soldiers who took deliberate aim at him and fired, not one ever hit him. On the contrary, he never missed a shot. He killed at least eight of our men, besides wounding several others. This being observed by a lieutenant who had come in over the wall, he sprang at him and dealt him a deadly blow with his sword, just above the right eye, which felled him to the ground, and in an instant he was pierced by not less than 20 bayonets."

--Sergeant Felix Nuñez, Mexican Army.

"Returning to the subject of David Crockett, the old Señora said he was one of the first to fall; that he advanced from the Church building towards the wall or rampart running from the end of the stockade, slowly and with great deliberation, without arms, when suddenly a volley was fired by the Mexicans causing him to fall forward on his face, dead."

-- William Corner's interview with alleged Alamo survivor Mrs. Andrea Castanon de Villanueva ("Madame Candelaria"), "San Antonio De Bexar: A Guide and History," 1890.

The last assault was made on the morning of the 6th of March, by the whole Mexican army, led by Santa Anna in person, consisting of 3000 men, and the place after a most bloody defence was carried about sunrise, after seven hours of hard fighting. The whole garrison was put to death, except a woman and the negro servant of Col. Travis, and the wounded, together with seven men who asked for quarter. The rest all fought like bloodhounds ; and Col. Crockett's body was found in an angle of two buildings with his big dagger in his hand, and around him were lying seventeen dead Mexicans, eleven of whom had come by their deaths by his dagger, and the others by his rifle and four pistols, which laid beside him. In the dark he had a decided advantage over them, as they could not get behind him, and he stabbed them as they passed by in the charge. He had received two musket balls in his body, both of which were mortal. A smile of scorn played on his features.

-- Davy Crockett's Almanack, 1837, page 46

Crockett and the others tried to surrender, but were told there was no mercy for them."

-- New Orleans Post-Union, March, 1836.

"When the final assault was made upon the walls these men fought like devils. 'Kwockey' was killed in a room of the mission. He stood on the inside to the left of the door and plunged his long knife into the bosom of every soldier that tried to enter. They were powerless to fire upon him because of the fact that he was backed up against the wall and, the doorway being narrow, they could not bring their guns to bear upon him. And, moreover, the pressure from the rear was so great that many near the doorway were forced into the room only to receive a deadly thrust from that long knife. Finally a well directed shot broke the man's right arm and his hand fell useless at his side. He then seized his long gun with his left hand and leaped toward the center of the room where he could weild the weapon without obstruction, felling every man that came through the doorway. A corporal ordered the passage cleared of those who were being pressed forward, a volley was fired almost point blank and the last defender of the Alamo fell dead."

-- Calvary company commander Rafael Soldana of the Tampico battalion.

Here is a list.

http://www.alamodescendants.org/Htm%20Pages/alamo_defenders.htm

One of my grandfathers died at the Alamo and even a cousin or two I don’t remember there names off hand but they are somewhere in my archives.

Another one of my grandfathers Andrew Jackson Sowell was there but missed the final battle. He went on to kick some major ass in other places and wrote several great books on Texas history.

You mean your gr gr gr grandfathers

If those heros could come back to life and walk around Texas today I'm sure they would think their efforts were in vain and all was lost in that conflict.

170 years after the Alamo, the spics are overrunning the Southwest like cockroaches. If someone that had fought at the Alamo or in the Texas Revolution, or even in the subsequent Mexican War could come back to life and travel forward in time 17 decades, it would indeed seem to them that they had lost instead of winning decisively as they did. What will be left for our great-great-great grandchildren if the current spic invasion continues, not to mention the other nonwhites plaguing us with their presence? Answer? NOTHING.

You mean your gr gr gr grandfathers

Well it was getting late and I had things to do so in a hurry I skipped the great, great, great, part. I figured most people reading this could figure out my grandfather was not actually going on 200+ years old.