soldiers withstood the powerful forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna’s troops at the Battle of the Alamo. It was here that Davy Crockett became one of the most famous American defenders. What really happened on March 6, 1836, the day Crockett died? His death has always been controversial. Did he die fighting to the end like Walt Disney’s movie portrays, or was he violently executed? According to eyewitness Jose Enrique de la Pena’s diary, Santa Anna’s troops “...with swords in hand, fell upon
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the execution of all the failed escapees, Santa Anna changed his mind after hearing the pleas of several foreign ministers for mercy. Instead he ordered the decimation of the remaining one hundred and seventy-six prisoners. Decimation is an ancient Roman Tradition in which army units who were disloyal, or failed in their duties due to cowardice were punished by having one of every ten men executed. While we can hardly see this as an act of mercy, Santa Anna certainly considered it one. In The Diezmo
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Hancock’s film captured many aspects of the real Alamo. The film portrayed many actual events of the battle, so I would say that the movie is mostly historically accurate. The film began with a scene showing all of the Alamo’s defenders lying dead on the ground. Every man did, in fact, die defending the Alamo. Nobody knows for certain how many Texans were killed at the battle of the Alamo, but the movie showed an accurate estimate of the amount of men that historians and researchers believe were
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Ocean because it was about two million miles of land. Although, they knew that the majority of the American Southwest was owned by mexico. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna lead the mexican fight for independence in spain, which stopped spain from ruling over mexico. 8 years later spain tried to take over mexico once again because they wanted to regain power. Santa Anna became president after he led the war against the United States, which gave him power
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Susanna Dickerson, the sole American woman to escape, was allowed by Santa Anna to leave for Gonzales after the battle, to tell the demoralizing news of the Alamo’s fall and the death of its defenders. She described her way out of the church, cradling her daughter and limping (she had been wounded in the leg) through pools of blood of the fallen: “As we passed through the enclosed ground in front of the church, I saw heaps of dead and dying. The Texans on an average killed between eight and
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1800s. San Antonio, Texas: In room 214 at the Buckhorn Saloon, in the long shadow of the Alamo itself, a woman renowned for her beauty was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found. One year ago: In that same historic room, another woman vanished without a trace. Her blood was everywhere, but her body was never recovered. Now: In the last month, San Antonio’s Buckhorn has become a dumping ground for battered bodies. All of which were young women, many of them long missing, almost all forgotten
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Antonio was born on February 21, 1794, in Jalapa, Mexico. He was sent to a military academy at the age of 16. In his conquests, he even fought Miguel Hidalgo. Hidalgo was actually one of the original leaders of the independence movement. Throughout these battles, he distinguished himself as a great leader and fighter. Some even believe that even though he had a great career as far as ascending the ranks, it would have been even more efficient if a gambling scandal had not interfered. Despite this
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president Santa Anna, who promised the return of the constitution of 1824. Over time, Santa Anna altered his political platform to dictatorship, while choosing to ignore his promise. Unsatisfied with Santa Anna’s unjust economic, social, and political regulations, the Texans fought valiantly for independence by declaring war on Mexico. The Texan’s drive for freedom was understood considering Santa Anna’s cruel government. Santa Anna had created callous regulations and orders for the Texans. Santa Anna
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in San Antonio (Encyclopedia). This was really important to them because at that time they were really struggling. Although the Alamo ended in a massacre, the Texans eventually overcame the Mexicans and got independence. In 1724, Spanish settlers built the Alamo and started a mission to convert Native tribes to Catholicism, which was originally called the Mission de Saint Anthony. The Alamo was not only a mission, it ended up being used as a fort during the war. Also In 1836, Santa Anna, Mexico’s
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Stephen L. Hardin. He is a history professor at the University of McMurry in Abilene. The author of this account is an experienced academic writer. In his account he describes the account of the battle of Alamo where the Texan defense falls under the Santa Anna’s forces at the earliest hours of the 6th day of March 1836. Hardin involves various broad perspectives of views and writing styles, which are exhibited in the writing of this account. The Battle of Alamo account by Dela Pena is an historic firsthand
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