There has always been this great mystery of why on earth Travis and Bowie stay, and the best argument there is probably because they believe reinforcements would be forthcoming. maybe 200 guys at essentially an indefensible open-air Spanish mission. Santa Anna is coming north with 6,000 troops.
"Most academics now believe, based on Mexican accounts and contemporary accounts, that, in fact, did surrender and was executed," Burrough says.Īuthor Interviews 'Born On A Mountaintop' Or Not, Davy Crockett's Legend Lives On In their new book, Forget the Alamo, Burrough and co-writers Chris Tomlinson and Jason Stanford challenge common misconceptions surrounding the conflict - including the notion that Davy Crockett was a martyr who fought to the death rather than surrender. And yet it still surprises me that slavery went unexamined for so long." "It was the thing that the two sides had been arguing about and shooting about for going on 15 years. "Slavery was the undeniable linchpin of all of this," author Bryan Burrough says. But three writers, all Texans, say the common narrative of the Texas revolt overlooks the fact that it was waged in part to ensure slavery would be preserved. The siege of the Alamo was memorably depicted in a Walt Disney series and in a 1960 movie starring John Wayne.
Remember the Alamo? According to Texas lore, it's the site in San Antonio where, in 1836, about 180 Texan rebels died defending the state during Texas' war for independence from Mexico. Visitors walk around the outside of the Alamo in San Antonio.
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