Alamo
About Alamo
The Battle of the Alamo was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution. Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar. About one hundred Texians had been garrisoned at the mission, and they were supplemented by around a hundred subsequent reinforcements, led by eventual Alamo co-commanders James Bowie and William B. Travis. On February 23, approximately 1,500 Mexicans marched into San Antonio de Béxar as the first step in a campaign to retake Texas. In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repelling two attacks, the Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian fighters withdrew into interior buildings. On the basis of "perhaps" ten sources, William C. Davis posits three separate escapes of Texian combatants from the Alamo, consisting of perhaps 80 men. Phillip Thomas Tucker also sees three discrete Texian escapes, totaling as many as 120 men. Nearly all Texian combatants were killed. Those who fled outside the walls were dispatched by Mexican lancers, who had been positioned there for that purpose.
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He was at the Battle of Alamo, and he was disgraced there because he was very, very brutal, and then that was what led to the cries to remember the Alamo, which led to him and his troops being defeated at Jacinta later.
from 296: No Such Thing As A Glowing Ballet Dancer, 2019-11-22 at 00:29:18 · read transcript
Other times Alamo came up
The researcher found that every one of the 12 last remaining people to have survived the Civil War had not fought in the Civil War. Did they meet up and just occasionally look at each other and go, I know, I know, me neither. They did. There was a reunion. He said there'd been a veterans reunion. All the veterans who'd gone must have just been going, yeah, you remember Alamo? Was that Alamo? And David, yeah. How weird is that? This is from 2011.
564: No Such Thing As Water Floating On Water, 2025-01-02 · listen
In eight when the war ended and definitely had not fought in the American Civil War but not only that looked into all the other veterans in the 1950s who were saying they were the oldest surviving and they were all fake so the person who he claimed the oldest living veteran, the oldest surviving veteran title from was another phony the researcher found that every one of the 12 last remaining people to have survived the Civil War had not fought in the Civil War. Did they meet up and just occasionally you look at each other and go, I know, I know, me neither. They did. There was a reunion. He said there had been a veterans reunion, and all the veterans who had gone must have just been going. You remember Alamo? Was that? And Dave, yeah. How weird is that? This is from 2011.
No Such Thing As Water Floating On Water, 2025-01-02 · listen
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