a a the texans are expecting a fight at the alamo but not oo suit. with pockets of civil war santa ana has his handsfu full. they couldn t be more wrong. bee colonel travis. we didn t have a lot of reinforcement. travis gets the message. he discounts this information. travis doesn t expect the mexicans to show up until spring and he s got people like crockett and his lively. well aware of the advancing
the mexicans as alamo. mexicans. the american dream is terrifying. american history is the history of the scary thing being the exact thing we have to do. cross that ocean. walk on that moon. fly. none of this makes rational sense. it only makes american sense. here, the hard things show us who we are. leaving your job to start your own thing. having a kid, when you still feel like a kid. signing a 30-year mortgage on a home.
have taken over el al. state your business. for the united states here to fight for the republican texians. santa ana has determined to take back what bee longs to mexico and he sees only one way to do it. if you are going to teach his texians a lesson, you need to teach them that lesson at the alamo. numerous women and children as well as 100 texian soldiers are hunkered by the walls of the alamo. he is under the command of two men. you have travis in charge of the regulars and then you have jim boom in charge of the volunteers.
there are approximately 25 different accounts of there are approximately 25 different counts of crockehow ct died at the alamo. there are no credible witnesses to it. all i can tell you is crockett became a texas icon by dying here. he was actually only in texas two months before he met his death at the alamo. of all of the accomplishments in his 49 years it is his death at the alamo that secures the myth of davy crockett. in the days lieding up to the siege of the alamo, davy crockett is free to leave. instead he chooses to stay and fight for the liberation of texas. rather than retreat as a coward he fights and lives up to an image created the popular culture of his time.