The Battle of the Alamo as portayed in the movie, "The Alamo: 13 Days To Glory" !!!! I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS CONTENT ! PROPERTY OF ITS RESPECTIVE OWNERS !!!!
Texas no era.de uds. Mexico les dio la mano y uds agarraron asta la pata . Pero todo imperio o reynado llega a su fin. Lo gue es lo mismo España tardo 600 años en expulsar a los moros
It was pretty cool to see Travis fighting to the death near the end of the battle, but in reality, he actually died pretty early in the battle. He was on top of the north wall, firing his shotgun down at the Mexican soldiers huddled under the wall, and then a stray Mexican bullet struck him in the head.
@@rogercortez2509 We don't Know if he Killed Himself or not But he most Likely Didnt According to one persons chat Travis was hit by a cannon ball While manning a cannon and it Killed Him.
Oh wow I didnt realize you were there! That's super cool maybe you could to the ladies and gentlemen a second by second happening of events since you seem to know for a fact that Travis killed himself
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Every year here they do a battle reenactment of the Alamo for Texas Independence day festivities. The chief gunner was Gregorio Esparza. There was a contingent of Tejanos native born Texans of Mexican descent. Last message rider out to Houston was Juan Seguin son of the mayor of San Antonio. After San Jacinto he fulfilled his promise to his men at the Alamo and buried them which the Mexicans hadnt done.
Davy Crockett, William Travis, Jim Bowie, & the rest of 185 or more men, what I call a "Real Heroes!!!!" They all knew they going to die, but they fought right to the 13th day. Santa Anna's case, he was a cruel & extremely evil Dictator, was a Monster!!!!! Thank God, few months later, @ the "Battle of San Jacinto," Sam Houston, & all of his Army, capture Santa Anna, & Texas became free!!!!! Love what, Sam Houston, told his men, Shouting, this words, "Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad!!!!"
The Mexican soldiers are actually the good guys in the movie, since they defended the territorial integrity of Mexico, and the illegal immigrants who lived in the Mexican province of Texas, the bad guys, since they wanted to balkanize Texas in Mexico. Because they do not tell the truth, that the US-American Pirates stole Texas from Mexico to continue maintaining the labor system based on slavery, when it had been abolished in Mexico since 1810. Santa Anna is not really the villain of the movie. VIVA LA TEXAS MEXICANA
@@Sasskitten I like to remember and tell the true story, not the one invented by Uncle Sam, who invented a truly impressive story to justify an illegitimate robbery of Mexico
I respectfully, disagree with you. Santa Ana, was not a "Hero," he wss a "Evil Dictator!!!" Texas deserves, to be free, from a Dictator, like Santa Ana. About Sam Houston, he & his men, was another, "Heroes, in my Book!!!" Thank God, for the "Battle of San Jacinto!!!!" If it was not for them, Texas would NOT be FREE, from Santa Ana!!!
If I was inside, of the "Alamo," & I knew I was going to "Die," I rather "Die as a Hero," to fight for "Texas' Independence," over a "Disgusting Dictator, Santa Ana." To give Sam Houston, "To organize an army!!!"
Most of the large number Mexican battle shots were from John Wayne's Alamo. You can see the obvious difference in the film grain. Some shots are from other Alamo films and then colorized. Brian Keith looked nothing like Crockett. And Travis was killed very early on the North Wall. Not near the end fighting on a well near the chapel.
OJ Colegrove...Yes...I was an extra (Mexican soldier).and that is John Wayne's son...They were all introduced to us...The movie was filmed at Happy Shahans in Bracketville, Texas...
"the Alamo:13 Days to Glory." (1987,Historical Drama/Western). Cast: James Arness: Alec Baldwin: Brian Keith: Raul Julia: David Ogden Stiers: Lorne Greene: Kathleen York: Jim Metzler: Jon Lindstrom: Tom Schanley: Gene Evans: Isela Vega: Laura Harring: Ethan Wayne: Fernando Allende: Hinton Battle: David Sheiner: Tom Everett: Buck Taylor: Grainger Hines: Phil Casados: Tony Becker: Stan Ivar: Noble Willingham John Furlong: Nicky Blair: Jay Baker: Dale Swann: Jan Triska: Gary Kasper: Loyda Ramos:
I am English and even I know that the defenders of the Alamo were properly brave and that they knew exactly what was going to happen to them but held out anyway
@@carlosbarboza6826 shut up barboza, In fact WHY DO U EVEN KEEP COMING HERE? STOP WATCHING ALAMO VIDEOS IF UR GONNA Talk trash about it jeez don't u have something better to do? I mean my god how many times u gonna keep coming here
@@Maybedakidnamedaidan what are you talking about you weren't even there David Crockett and Travis ran like jackrabbits and were caught and executed along with a few others they stole this land from Mexico how would you like it if someone comes over by force and take half of the United States and call themselves hero's
Sorry to disappoint all of you Alamo fans, but Travis(Alec Baldwin) was one of the first to fall, and on the North Wall, instead of one of the last to fall fighting like Zorro in the courtyard.
I dont think anyone is disappointed. Someone whose done any research about the alamo at all knows that already. More than likely if someone is watching an alamo movie, theyre interested enough to look up the facts as well.
maybe but I think Covid might slow it down. Can you imagine a battle where they make use of social distancing? Everyone has to run six feet apart from each other and wear masks. And Disinfect their bullets before use.
Around 1836, the Mexican province 🇲🇽 of Texas, was inhabited mainly by "illegal" American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico forbade them to use slavery as a form of work, so the rebels proposed to keep slavery, so as not to become independent from Mexico, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, they had no right to secede. The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the North American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was an army poor in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, with weapons last generation. The Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "Americans." Thus began an armed conflict between both parties that led to the secession of Texas. That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
Ponyboy314 you said cowboys when most of them were tranined to fight !?I'm related to James boham and very proud for what they did ..so yea I can make debates that your not going to win lolol
At the time, the area which would later become Texas was a part of Mexico. So the Mexicans were fighting to maintain the sovereignty of their country. Texas would later fight against the United States, becoming part of the Confederacy, against the advice of their great hero and statesman, Sam Houston.
Before he died Houston informed his slaves about the Emancipation Proclamation. One of them, Joshua Houston, was later elected to the Texas legislature.
I love this movie. Watches it for the first time in 7tjh grade Texas History and have the VhS of it but haven't gotten a DVD so far :( love love love this movie
Into music in a big way and this was composed by Peter Bernstein son of the great Elmer you can tell by the score that he had combined with his father on this movie
+jermster17 Now that is a fast answer! One of my regrets in life was not stopping by the Alamo. I was driving through there at 3 am helping my son drive to Ft. Benning. 3rd ID..... we could have diven the short distance to see it from the freeway. But didnt. Wish I had. Have read a lot on the battle. Great story. Movies never get it right but this one tried at least. Thanks for posting Midnight in Az here!!! LOL
Actually reading eyewitness Mexican veteran accounts of the battle Crockett was stowed away in a well fortified room encroaching numerous casualties on the Mexican and they finally killed him when they charged the room with many Mexicans but not without him leaving about 15 dead in the melee.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas. Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810. Mexico land of racial equality.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Well actually Mexico invited the Americans to settle Texas for them, which they did. Then Santa Anna abolished the Mexican constitution of 1824 and declared himself dictator. First Santa Anna killed off many Mexican patriots who didn't want to live under a dictator. After that he made the mistake of also attacking the people of Texas who didn't want a dictator either and so declared independence. Even though he outnumber the Texans, he was soundly defeated and was lucky that they spared his life. Which is more than he did for the heroes of the Alamo.
@@matthewstavrowsky9998 Although the Mexican government system changed, Texas did not have the right to separate, since it was a Mexican province, its sovereignty depended on the entire Mexican state. The president had the right to abolish the autonomy of the Mexican territories, as well as to grant autonomy, since it was his power as head of state. Texas was balkanized by immigrants from the United States, that's the truth.
Alex Baldwin Was travis, And as far as the fight scene it's not totally inaccurate probably par for the course as to what happened, but no general Santa antagonist had no British advisors.
What gets me, is the big guy with tomahawk. That guy is all messed up but still trying to muster the strength to get back in the fight. Dies defending his post.
Anybody also notice that wasn't midnight and the Alamo was not surrounded? In history, the frontal assault failed and they had to surround the Alamo at night and then took it. No historical accuracy at all!!!
That is correct Derek! The conditions at the mission were atrocious! Additionally food was scarce, there was dissention among the different factions, munnitions were of poor quality, untrained men who couldn't aim a cannon, an immature boy, Travis, leading a group of grown misfits who were conned into the Alamo with a promise of acreage and money. As you know they didn't collect. Additionally psuedo-historians say it was a 13 day siege. Not so! The 13 days of the event was, like a great tactician he was, Santa Ana sent probes toward the mission to find all the weak defensive positions. And yes, some Mexicans were killed in their probing. The defensive position they showed in the wee hours of the morning on that day was that they were asleep in their quarters. The 13 day probing of the mission was successful and on March 6th with all the info garnered from the probes Santa Ana launched his attack and wiped out a bunch of crybabies and their cowardly boy who chose to take the coward's way out...flat out SUICIDE! Yup! A real hero that Travis guy!
....and hows'bout that Davy Crockett fella. He and the boy, Tavis! The "COWARDLY DUO"! One committed suicide and 'ol Davy tucked his tail between his legs and ran off like the skunk he was. These are the phonies that white folk there about worship! And still do so today!
Not very historically accurate. Actual battle occurred in early morning, and was over by sunrise. Secondly, Santa Anna would not have continued to fire artillery with his lancers and infantry, trying to scale the wall. He would’ve killed as many Mexican soldiers as Texans. Another thing I noticed, they have Travis dying almost at the end. When an actuality, he was one of the first ones killed on the north wall. That all being said, I always enjoy watching anything about the Alamo.
Tina B, three men, three women, and 4 children survived that weren't involved in the defending battle. Davey Crockett was the last defender to die and he cussed-out Santa Anna before being murdered by Santa Anna's body guards.
I remember watching this as a kid growing up and playing along with toy soldiers from The Alamo soldier and/or battle toy set that had soldiers, cannons, horses, and named soldiers. As well as using cotton balls as smoke on the ends of the guns and cannons and stuff in a makeshift as well as using sticks to make scale sized fences for the soldiers to hide behind in my Alamo battle recreation. God I miss those days, I really enjoyed those toy soldier sets. I wish I still had them to play with at times =D.
scott walker The place was just too big &a spread out for so few to defend. Although the percussion cap was invented 8 years earlier in Scotland, I don't think it reached the U.S. till the 1840's
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I wonder if texans celeberate the 13 days of battle glory of The real Almo from any part of Texas as a holiday just my though I like fess parker and john wayne as davey crockett.
Jared Taylor I was thinking the same thing 😂 I think the most accurate one to date is the 2004 version! But this is still good. I like how everybody falls down dead even if they get a spec of dirt in their eye 😂
@@joemoose102 what about the props? Those ladders seems reasonable considering that part of Texas barely has any trees. Using a bunch of branches and sticks for ladder makes sense.
It makes me sad to see how Mexico shakes hands with the settlers of the Nidense states only to see that the settlers only wanted to take the land from Mexico and give it to the United States.
Unfortunately, the assault took place at around 4:00 am on March 6th. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns approached without bugles or bands, in total silence with fixed bayonets and unloaded muskets. They were over the North wall before any of the defenders knew what was happening. Most of the Mexican casualties likely came from 'friendly' fire as the rearward columns loaded their muskets before they entered the fort.
Not quite. 5-6 AM. That's a big difference weather-wise from 4 AM. Not noon-like as the movie shows but also not pitch black either. Defenders beat back 2 waves. 30 minutes of gunshots followed by 30 minutes of hand-to-hand fighting after the walls were breached. Not the 10 minutes that Hollywood shows in this scene.
Also, evidence has been released that Crockett and few others actually did escape the Alamo. They sneaked out during the fighting, unfortunately for them Gen. Santa Ana placed units around the Alamo for that sole reason, when Crockett was captured, Gen. Santa Ana gave specific details to execute all of them for being cowards....
There's a lot of BS about the Alamo. All that really matters is that it "encouraged" the Mexican War. We got California out of that war . . So maybe we lost after all.
@@williamphillips6049 well in San Jacinto Santa Anna’s troops were ambushed while resting and they lost and Santa Anna was captured he was sent to Washington then exiled back to Mexico to basically live an embarrassing and depressing life
This was made before the discovery of the Mexican Officer's account. Therefore the final days attack followed normal military tactics. Most battle of the time took place in the afternoon.
Roger Cortez Ha! 😂 The one and only historical source for that fairy tale is from an ex slave who first said he was shot in the head defending the North wall, and then much later changed his story because he hated (quite naturally) being enslaved. Dozens of accounts of Travis courage. Even from Mexicans. (who also showed great courage) Your ignorance of history is okay, but you should read a little before you make foolish comments.
@@rogercortez2509 I’d read an actual history book before I said something else so stupid. I teach Texas History at the community college level. Travis nor any alamo defender killed themselves. Travis fought and died on the battlements.
Something else i'd like to point out is how in this, Crockets men get over whelmed really fast, when it was actually wall under Travis' command that was taken over first. Also it was a night time surprise attack. From all sides! and they always depict Davy Crocket as wearing dear skins with a hunting rifle. Those were just his hunting clothes. He never actually were them in public.
nothing more powerful in this version. he stands on a gate for 10 mins killing Mexicans like nothing and then dies- that is like kids power fantasy nothing adults should like.
Actually the final attack on the alamo happened at 5am while the “defenders” were asleep. Santa Anna wanted to kill them in their sleep but a soldier started chanting which woke up the “defenders”
A sad tragedy of men ordered to abandon and blow up the fort. The Alamo was a political decision by Travis ET AL. ignoring Sam Houston and the greater war.
+Smitty Boy Good point. But then again, since most of the Alamo defenders were of American decent (some very famous), you could make the argument of it being an American Last Stand.
Definitely the people long before us were braver and with stronger principles like honor and patriotism. They didn't clinch to shitty pathetic shameful lives like we do.
there is an earlier scene showing Scotsman John MacGregor with his bagpipes. But the actor is holding the chanter upside down. You'd think they'd just get a real piper to play the part. sloppy production
Warren Parker According to a supposed journal from Col.Enrique De La Pena who was with Santa Anna, that's true, he said two other officers tried to have Crockett spared & released but Santa Anna refused.
Yes I remember reading about that in our encyclopedia 1954, I believe he was captured with 5 others and they were put up against the wall and executed firing squad.
The fallen defenders lie there as if they're just asleep. I know - I know, but it gives me the feeling that heroes can not truly die, for they live on in tales.
I wish they showed this more realistic, sweaty, dirty and dangerous. Most defenders had multiple wounds that they fought through before they were overwhelmed. Some were stabbed 20x with the bayonet.
The History books say they were all laid low, but the truth of it is it just ain't so . They wiil live and their legends grow so long as we remember the Alamo
ponyboy314 again you are wrong ...Under Iturbide, American colonists had been allowed to settle in Texas. About the only condition to owning land was that all immigrant landowners had to be Catholic, an easy enough problem to overcome for non-Catholics. William Travis, for instance, became Catholic to purchase land, but remained a staunch Methodist until the day he died at the Alamo. Unfortunately, the fledgling Republic of Mexico was born bankrupt and ill-prepared for self-government. In fact, during its first 15 years of independence, it had 13 presidents. All of them struggled for power, shifting between the liberal-leaning Federalists and the dictatorial Centralists. The first president was a Federalist, General Guadalupe Victoria, a hero of the revolution who had changed his name from Miguel Felix Hernandez to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, for his victory. It was he who established the liberal Constitution of 1824 that so infuriated Santa Anna and that would lead to the Battle of the Alamo 12 years later. It was also during this tumultuous struggle for control of Mexico’s presidency that the northern territory of Texas was mostly neglected. When Mexico redefined its territories in 1824, Texas was the only separate territory to lose its independence. It was joined to Coahuila and the capital was moved from San Antonio de Béxar to Saltillo. Armed citizens gathered in protest. In September 1835, they petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the 1824 Constitution, which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners. His answer was to send his crack troops, commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cós, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans. October 1835 found San Antonio de Béxar under military rule, with 1,200 Mexican troops under General Cós’ command. When Cós ordered the small community of Gonzales, about 50 miles east of San Antonio, to return a cannon loaned to the town for defense against Indian attack-rightfully fearing that the citizens might use the cannon against his own troops-the Gonzales residents refused. Come and take it! they taunted, setting off a charge of old chains and scrap iron, shot from the mouth of the tiny cannon mounted on ox-cart wheels. Although the only casualty was one Mexican soldier, Gonzales became enshrined in history as the Lexington of Texas. The Texas Revolution was on. On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cós’ troops in San Antonio de Béxar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Béxar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cós finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande. To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy. The siege of Béxar and Cós’ surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners. Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him. Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cós had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Béxar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower-by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault. Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World….I shall never surrender or retreat….Victory or Death! is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of no quarter. Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett’s fiddle and John McGregor’s bagpipes. In fact, Davy’s fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy’s lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis’ pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190. At 4 o’clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo’s walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin’s Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna’s first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis’ artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself. Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna’s loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as a small affair, but one of his officers commented, Another such victory will ruin us. As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire-except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cós’ presidio guards. Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo’s many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died. One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the grand canyon of Texas, and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it’s logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, By God, I wasn’t ready to die. It is Rose’s tale of the line in the dust that has become legend. - See more at: www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo#sthash.2BdRFiDA.dpuf
ponyboy314 Actually Santa Anna held up for thirteen days waiting for the rest of his troops who were bringing up the larger siege cannons they needed to breach the walls. He never expected Houston's army to arrive. There were actually three attacks. The first two were poorly thought out and executed. The Mexican army reformed and attacked again after each attack was repelled. It was the third attack that finally breached the walls. The entire battle lasted about two hours. The Mexican loses were around 600 which conforms with the normal casualty rate for attacking a fortified position in those days. About 3 to 1 loss rate for the attackers was normal. You know just enough about history to be dangerous to yourself. And your bias makes it even more perilous.
ponyboy314 His name was Louis Rose. He had been a soldier in Napolean's army. Moses was the name of Travis' slave and is the one who pointed out his body.
Travis was one of the first defenders to die being shot in the head at the North Wall before any Mexican troops had entered the compound.. Crockett was one of the last to die being brutally killed by officers loyal to Santa Anna after he and a small group were captured defending the Chapel. Also, no Mexican cavalry entered the compound, they ruthlessly pursued and lanced the few defenders who tried to escape.
Crockery’s manner of death is not certain. Susannah Dickinson herself said she saw his body surrounded by corpses and hacked to bits, some say he was captured and executed, others say he was part of a group that attempted to escape and was run down by cavalry.
The bravery and sacrifice of the men at the Alamo gave Sam Houston crucial time to raise and prepare an Army in East Texas that would route Santa Ana at San Jacinto about a month later. It just goes to show that a few dedicated men devoted to a cause larger than themselves can change the world.
@@onlythewise1 I'm glad they have a place for individuals like you to express how uncivilized you with out getting your mouth kicked opened. Advice if you won't say it to a person's face. Trust me you wouldn't say it to my face without me demonstrating. Just disagree and keep it moving
bob steppenwolf I take exception to your insults. I am northern born and raised. We have nothing like the crap you have described. At least no one is rioting and looting up here.
Santa Anna irritated Davey Crockett because of his arrogance attitude. Davey fired a shot, at Santa Anna, which slightly wounded him. It was a warning shot to damped that arrogance attitude. Too bad the shot didn't kill Santa Anna. Later, though, he died in disgrace, disabled and blind.
You're the joke! "OK class open up your textbook where we study the presidente David Lynn" Oh that's right that chapter doesn't exist!!! Santa Anna did what he could to defend his country from illegal immigrants!
@@newvibes789 I don’t argue with ignorant people! Santa Anna did refer to himself as the Napoleon of the West. Based on his lack of tactical skills he was no Napoleon! Thus the joke! Don’t put forth ignorant comments. Don’t disrespect your elders. Thus ends the lesson.
The most recent movie with Jason Patric and Billy Bob Thornton is probably the most historically accurate. At least they have it at night. Travis died early in the attack. Nobody knows exactly how Crockett died. The attack at San Jacinto in the last movie was also well done. Dennis Quaid always looked like he was constipated.
@Jack Hamilton nobody knows exactly what was said, or even who was a survivor of the attack, though some sources say that Crockett was among those who did. The screamer thing was probably artistic license, but it did work for me.
@Bewilderbeast I do believe that the attack was scheduled to take place at night, it has always been staged in daylight for filming purposes. It makes more sense to attack at night strategically. The element of surprise is a great advantage.
@@tomvernon2123 Couriers carried out messages, and letters, quite often before the Alamo was lost which is why the 2004 movie version was more accurate.
Top 5 Alamo Movies 5.13 days of Glory4.Matrys of The Alamo (First ever Alamo movie)3.John Wayne's Alamo2.Texas Rising(After The Alamo)1.The Alamo (2004 2nd biggest budget blockbuster film)Watch it it's good
Texas was born this day. This was our shot heard around the world. 30 million strong now. We are a big part of the world economy
Sooo tough. Funny though. Y’all were just a bunch of illegals immigrants at the time… no look at you. Denying the same to others. Reap what you sow
Texas no era.de uds.
Mexico les dio la mano y uds agarraron asta la pata .
Pero todo imperio o reynado llega a su fin.
Lo gue es lo mismo
España tardo 600 años en expulsar a los moros
I think the 2004 Alamo movie was the most underrated version, because it was working the most closely with historical sources.
*Travis lasted wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too long on this version*
It was pretty cool to see Travis fighting to the death near the end of the battle, but in reality, he actually died pretty early in the battle. He was on top of the north wall, firing his shotgun down at the Mexican soldiers huddled under the wall, and then a stray Mexican bullet struck him in the head.
That stray bullet did not strike him in the head! His bullet from his own gun struck him in the head! The coward committed suicide!
@@rogercortez2509 We don't Know if he Killed Himself or not But he most Likely Didnt According to one persons chat Travis was hit by a cannon ball While manning a cannon and it Killed Him.
Oh wow I didnt realize you were there! That's super cool maybe you could to the ladies and gentlemen a second by second happening of events since you seem to know for a fact that Travis killed himself
@@rogercortez2509 dummy
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The Alamo flag is currently housed in the Chaputepek museum in Mexico City D.F., Mexico.
I once saw it back in 1968 when I visited Mexico.
The flag you speak if is the New Orleans Grey's flag.
This battle scene has some of it repeating over and over..
If only John Wayne had been there...
... the ending would have been the same!
He died in his version too though.
Ethan wayne was there
And the guy's,at 4.54,grandson played a pivotal role at Rorkes Drift many years later!
Every year here they do a battle reenactment of the Alamo for Texas Independence day festivities. The chief gunner was Gregorio Esparza. There was a contingent of Tejanos native born Texans of Mexican descent. Last message rider out to Houston was Juan Seguin son of the mayor of San Antonio. After San Jacinto he fulfilled his promise to his men at the Alamo and buried them which the Mexicans hadnt done.
According to most, santa Anna desecrated their bodies and burned them
Well historically inaccurate but not a bad battle scene especially for a TV movie from the 80s
Davy Crockett, William Travis, Jim Bowie, & the rest of 185 or more men, what I call a "Real Heroes!!!!" They all knew they going to die, but they fought right to the 13th day. Santa Anna's case, he was a cruel & extremely evil Dictator, was a Monster!!!!! Thank God, few months later, @ the "Battle of San Jacinto," Sam Houston, & all of his Army, capture Santa Anna, & Texas became free!!!!! Love what, Sam Houston, told his men, Shouting, this words, "Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad!!!!"
The Mexican soldiers are actually the good guys in the movie, since they defended the territorial integrity of Mexico, and the illegal immigrants who lived in the Mexican province of Texas, the bad guys, since they wanted to balkanize Texas in Mexico.
Because they do not tell the truth, that the US-American Pirates stole Texas from Mexico to continue maintaining the labor system based on slavery, when it had been abolished in Mexico since 1810.
Santa Anna is not really the villain of the movie.
VIVA LA TEXAS MEXICANA
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Don't you get tired of repeating yourself? Also, does it really matter now since it is in the past and apart of history?
@@Sasskitten
I like to remember and tell the true story, not the one invented by Uncle Sam, who invented a truly impressive story to justify an illegitimate robbery of Mexico
I respectfully, disagree with you. Santa Ana, was not a "Hero," he wss a "Evil Dictator!!!" Texas deserves, to be free, from a Dictator, like Santa Ana. About Sam Houston, he & his men, was another, "Heroes, in my Book!!!" Thank God, for the "Battle of San Jacinto!!!!" If it was not for them, Texas would NOT be FREE, from Santa Ana!!!
If I was inside, of the "Alamo," & I knew I was going to "Die," I rather "Die as a Hero," to fight for "Texas' Independence," over a "Disgusting Dictator, Santa Ana." To give Sam Houston, "To organize an army!!!"
Que viva Mexico
Y muerte a los tejanos
God bless ALL of our
Texan heroes in the War of Texas Independence
R. I. P.
🇨🇱TexanHeroes🇨🇱
If the writers of Game of Thrones had made this movie, they would have put half the defenders outside the walls with the cannons in front.
Went straight for jugular. S7 cant escape our wrath no matter how old the movie is HAHA. I like it.
... and they would've set the battle to late night, in darkness. (Which would've been correct actually)
With exposed slongs
The Alamo only had 1 Cannon……….
The battle began at Dawn………It was not in darkness………
Most of the large number Mexican battle shots were from John Wayne's Alamo. You can see the obvious difference in the film grain. Some shots are from other Alamo films and then colorized. Brian Keith looked nothing like Crockett. And Travis was killed very early on the North Wall. Not near the end fighting on a well near the chapel.
From what I've seen many of he Mexican battle scenes are from the 1955 movie "The Last Command" starring Sterling Hayden as Jim Bowie.
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the guy dying att 5:13 is ethan wayne john wayne's youngest son.
OJ Colegrove...Yes...I was an extra (Mexican soldier).and that is John Wayne's son...They were all introduced to us...The movie was filmed at Happy Shahans in Bracketville, Texas...
@@romeo34889 I believe his son was in his father directed version of the Alamo.
5:13
Col. Travis was one of the first defenders killed. Bullet to the head, I believe.
Yes he was actually on his forehead with his lave joe a black person was realoding willams b Travis mukset when it was done a meaxcin soldier shot him
the cavalry would have been behind the alamo to kill anyone running away.
Bob ap Bob There's a story that about 30 tried to make a run for it but were caught&killed by Calvary troops
@@Chief2Moon Calvary is a different thing, in the bible...
The Mexican army got ambush on the way back true
"the Alamo:13 Days to Glory." (1987,Historical Drama/Western).
Cast:
James Arness:
Alec Baldwin:
Brian Keith:
Raul Julia:
David Ogden Stiers:
Lorne Greene:
Kathleen York:
Jim Metzler:
Jon Lindstrom:
Tom Schanley:
Gene Evans:
Isela Vega:
Laura Harring:
Ethan Wayne:
Fernando Allende:
Hinton Battle:
David Sheiner:
Tom Everett:
Buck Taylor:
Grainger Hines:
Phil Casados:
Tony Becker:
Stan Ivar:
Noble Willingham
John Furlong:
Nicky Blair:
Jay Baker:
Dale Swann:
Jan Triska:
Gary Kasper:
Loyda Ramos:
And these were the actual defenders the actors played
I thought I saw Brian Keith in there!
I am English and even I know that the defenders of the Alamo were properly brave and that they knew exactly what was going to happen to them but held out anyway
Brave? Those pigs were slaveholders
@@carlosbarboza6826 shut up barboza, In fact WHY DO U EVEN KEEP COMING HERE? STOP WATCHING ALAMO VIDEOS IF UR GONNA Talk trash about it jeez don't u have something better to do? I mean my god how many times u gonna keep coming here
@@Maybedakidnamedaidan what are you talking about you weren't even there David Crockett and Travis ran like jackrabbits and were caught and executed along with a few others they stole this land from Mexico how would you like it if someone comes over by force and take half of the United States and call themselves hero's
@@crissoto3759 How did Mexico get the land?
Fuck off. Mexico is the best than the USA
Texas is a slave owner.
Sorry to disappoint all of you Alamo fans, but Travis(Alec Baldwin) was one of the first to fall, and on the North Wall, instead of one of the last to fall fighting like Zorro in the courtyard.
I dont think anyone is disappointed. Someone whose done any research about the alamo at all knows that already. More than likely if someone is watching an alamo movie, theyre interested enough to look up the facts as well.
If we are not careful. History will soon be repeating itself.
maybe but I think Covid might slow it down. Can you imagine a battle where they make use of social distancing? Everyone has to run six feet apart from each other and wear masks. And Disinfect their bullets before use.
Πεσανε.ηρωικα.σαν.τους.300.του.λεωνιδα.
Not really fall like stupids how can defend with the most powerful army of the world at that time
Someone please upload the 2004 remake part with sam houston defeating santa, in 18 min.
Around 1836, the Mexican province 🇲🇽 of Texas, was inhabited mainly by "illegal" American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico forbade them to use slavery as a form of work, so the rebels proposed to keep slavery, so as not to become independent from Mexico, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, they had no right to secede.
The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the North American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was an army poor in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, with weapons last generation. The Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "Americans."
Thus began an armed conflict between both parties that led to the secession of Texas.
That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
Bravo you !! ... Well said
Ponyboy314 you said cowboys when most of them were tranined to fight !?I'm related to James boham and very proud for what they did ..so yea I can make debates that your not going to win lolol
josh kullin Good for you. It must be nice to have a hero like that in your family tree. I would be proud, myself.
At the time, the area which would later become Texas was a part of Mexico. So the Mexicans were fighting to maintain the sovereignty of their country. Texas would later fight against the United States, becoming part of the Confederacy, against the advice of their great hero and statesman, Sam Houston.
Before he died Houston informed his slaves about the Emancipation Proclamation. One of them, Joshua Houston, was later elected to the Texas legislature.
At 8:50 did anyone see the Mexican soldier extra help an Alamo defender extra up and then run off together
He is a traitor in a nutshell
I love this movie. Watches it for the first time in 7tjh grade Texas History and have the VhS of it but haven't gotten a DVD so far :( love love love this movie
I saw this movie in 7th grade Texas history too
What movie is this?
Into music in a big way and this was composed by Peter Bernstein son of the great Elmer you can tell by the score that he had combined with his father on this movie
I was assigned to a 20mm AA battery on the South wall and managed to bring down 2 Mexican Bombers and a fighter!
what a guy !!
In 4th Grade Texas History, this is the movie we saw on the Alamo. In 7th grade Texas History, we saw the 2004 Alamo in Theaters.
+jermster17 I may be wrong but this film posted here was using pieces of the Last Command with Sterling Hayden. Must have been a cheap movie
+Frank Fraser it does use clips from other Alamo movies.
+jermster17 Now that is a fast answer! One of my regrets in life was not stopping by the Alamo. I was driving through there at 3 am helping my son drive to Ft. Benning. 3rd ID..... we could have diven the short distance to see it from the freeway. But didnt. Wish I had.
Have read a lot on the battle. Great story. Movies never get it right but this one tried at least. Thanks for posting Midnight in Az here!!! LOL
+Frank Fraser It has been awhile since I have visited the Alamo. It is certainly something every Texan should visit in his or her lifetime.
+jermster17 All Americans should visit! Custer Battlefield too. (Little Big Horn...excuse me!!!)
183 against 2500
Never saw this. Pretty good battle depiction, realistic close combat and death scenes better then most.
Actually reading eyewitness Mexican veteran accounts of the battle Crockett was stowed away in a well fortified room encroaching numerous casualties on the Mexican and they finally killed him when they charged the room with many Mexicans but not without him leaving about 15 dead in the melee.
Many of the early battle scenes are from the 1955 movie "The Last Command" of Republic pictures.
+John Hanusin , I suppose that they were working on a low budget for this film, and, it was cheaper to use stock footage.
+John Hanusin also from john waynes 1960 tribute
You have to remember that it was a TV film show shown during prime time
Yes true
It's a tv movie!! what do you expect people!!
Give what fer Davie!!
In a war, time is an important factor. Though the Alamo fell in the end, the defenders had given the Texan army a much needed two weeks.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas.
Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810.
Mexico land of racial equality.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Every nation has the right to declare independance even if the country its from dosent like it.
LocomotiveSteam he’s wrong anyways
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Well actually Mexico invited the Americans to settle Texas for them, which they did. Then Santa Anna abolished the Mexican constitution of 1824 and declared himself dictator. First Santa Anna killed off many Mexican patriots who didn't want to live under a dictator. After that he made the mistake of also attacking the people of Texas who didn't want a dictator either and so declared independence. Even though he outnumber the Texans, he was soundly defeated and was lucky that they spared his life. Which is more than he did for the heroes of the Alamo.
@@matthewstavrowsky9998 Although the Mexican government system changed, Texas did not have the right to separate, since it was a Mexican province, its sovereignty depended on the entire Mexican state.
The president had the right to abolish the autonomy of the Mexican territories, as well as to grant autonomy, since it was his power as head of state.
Texas was balkanized by immigrants from the United States, that's the truth.
Alex Baldwin Was travis, And as far as the fight scene it's not totally inaccurate probably par for the course as to what happened, but no general Santa antagonist had no British advisors.
What gets me, is the big guy with tomahawk. That guy is all messed up but still trying to muster the strength to get back in the fight. Dies defending his post.
Anybody also notice that wasn't midnight and the Alamo was not surrounded? In history, the frontal assault failed and they had to surround the Alamo at night and then took it. No historical accuracy at all!!!
the 2004 Alamo movie was the most accurate.
Baldwin better be careful with that!!!!!!
The real history is the 13th day assault happened in the way hours before sunrise, when most were still asleep.
That is correct Derek! The conditions at the mission were atrocious! Additionally food was scarce, there was dissention among the different factions, munnitions were of poor quality, untrained men who couldn't aim a cannon, an immature boy, Travis, leading a group of grown misfits who were conned into the Alamo with a promise of acreage and money. As you know they didn't collect. Additionally psuedo-historians say it was a 13 day siege. Not so! The 13 days of the event was, like a great tactician he was, Santa Ana sent probes toward the mission to find all the weak defensive positions. And yes, some Mexicans were killed in their probing. The defensive position they showed in the wee hours of the morning on that day was that they were asleep in their quarters. The 13 day probing of the mission was successful and on March 6th with all the info garnered from the probes Santa Ana launched his attack and wiped out a bunch of crybabies and their cowardly boy who chose to take the coward's way out...flat out SUICIDE! Yup! A real hero that Travis guy!
....and hows'bout that Davy Crockett fella. He and the boy, Tavis! The "COWARDLY DUO"! One committed suicide and 'ol Davy tucked his tail between his legs and ran off like the skunk he was. These are the phonies that white folk there about worship! And still do so today!
@@rogercortez2509 jesus fucking christ. You still at it boomer?
@@thespecter5164 Yup, still at it! Still at it until the history of the Alamo is corrected!
@@rogercortez2509 🤣🤣🤣
Texans are badass fighters
I've pretty much come to the conclusion there is no accurate historical account of what happened at the Alamo.
Sid, you might want to look at the post I just made. I hope it helps.
The 2004 version I believe is the closest.
Not very historically accurate. Actual battle occurred in early morning, and was over by sunrise. Secondly, Santa Anna would not have continued to fire artillery with his lancers and infantry, trying to scale the wall. He would’ve killed as many Mexican soldiers as Texans. Another thing I noticed, they have Travis dying almost at the end. When an actuality, he was one of the first ones killed on the north wall. That all being said, I always enjoy watching anything about the Alamo.
Love the action! They didn't get much accurate, but so what?
人はせいぜい殺して5〜6人。どんな練達の者でも。
The Mexicans at that time were messin’ with the wrong Texans
Russian Royalists no
*oof sounds*
Mexico mexicans is so beautiful as a Mexican American don't make me choose I'm heart is mexican
10:19 okay now the character killed here is Despelier right? Because I think I've gotten every character figured out except for him.
Yur good!
10:19
И что несли Африке британцы: свободу, демократию и права человека?
Where's david Crockett? He's supposed to be one of the last men
Crockett's death at 9:15
Tina B, three men, three women, and 4 children survived that weren't involved in the defending battle. Davey Crockett was the last defender to die and he cussed-out Santa Anna before being murdered by Santa Anna's body guards.
No at 9:23
I remember watching this as a kid growing up and playing along with toy soldiers from The Alamo soldier and/or battle toy set that had soldiers, cannons, horses, and named soldiers. As well as using cotton balls as smoke on the ends of the guns and cannons and stuff in a makeshift as well as using sticks to make scale sized fences for the soldiers to hide behind in my Alamo battle recreation. God I miss those days, I really enjoyed those toy soldier sets. I wish I still had them to play with at times =D.
they needed 4 apache gunships and they would have won
Hell one gatling gun & Mexico would have lost.
scott walker The place was just too big &a spread out for so few to defend. Although the percussion cap was invented 8 years earlier in Scotland, I don't think it reached the U.S. till the 1840's
1 Gatling gun, 1 Apache GS
4 AH64s means 3 that are redlined awaiting parts or maintenance and the 4th one might fly but you forgot to put in your class v request 30 days in advance so no hellfire missiles, 2.75 hydra rockets, or 30mm chain gun for you my friend
Is this the final Scene were the Mexicans win the battle of the Alamo
I wonder if texans celeberate the 13 days of battle glory of The real Almo from any part of Texas as a holiday just my though I like fess parker and john wayne as davey crockett.
no they don't. They celebrate cinco de mayo.
Actually Texans celebrate March 2 when they declared Independence just as Americans celebrate July 4.
@@KWY007 Budweiser celebrates cinco de Mayo.
The reality was that Crockett & 5 others were captured then later put up against the wall with the firing squad ordered by Santa ana.
@@josephcavaliere9772 I Highly doubt Davy crockett Surrenderd but maybe he did.
Hell. What was Marshall Dillon doing there?
8:18 savage moment he literally kicks the gun, such footwork this dudes a legend 😎😎😎
Major Evans
これはアラモの戦い？
壮烈な戦死を遂げた勇者達よ、どうか安らかに
Super inaccurate, but entertaining nonetheless
Jared Taylor I was thinking the same thing 😂 I think the most accurate one to date is the 2004 version! But this is still good. I like how everybody falls down dead even if they get a spec of dirt in their eye 😂
@@joemoose102 what about the props? Those ladders seems reasonable considering that part of Texas barely has any trees. Using a bunch of branches and sticks for ladder makes sense.
Joe Moose The only inaccurate thing about the 2004 one was that Santa Anna looked older.
no jim bowie wrote in his book he saw that old man clunk two mexicans heads together to kill them
@Fox gaming but it was at night from history
It makes me sad to see how Mexico shakes hands with the settlers of the Nidense states only to see that the settlers only wanted to take the land from Mexico and give it to the United States.
Yeah
Unfortunately, the assault took place at around 4:00 am on March 6th. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns approached without bugles or bands, in total silence with fixed bayonets and unloaded muskets. They were over the North wall before any of the defenders knew what was happening. Most of the Mexican casualties likely came from 'friendly' fire as the rearward columns loaded their muskets before they entered the fort.
Not quite.
5-6 AM. That's a big difference weather-wise from 4 AM. Not noon-like as the movie shows but also not pitch black either.
Defenders beat back 2 waves.
30 minutes of gunshots followed by 30 minutes of hand-to-hand fighting after the walls were breached.
Not the 10 minutes that Hollywood shows in this scene.
Well if you wanta' get technical . .
Also, evidence has been released that Crockett and few others actually did escape the Alamo. They sneaked out during the fighting, unfortunately for them Gen. Santa Ana placed units around the Alamo for that sole reason, when Crockett was captured, Gen. Santa Ana gave specific details to execute all of them for being cowards....
There's a lot of BS about the Alamo.
All that really matters is that it "encouraged" the Mexican War.
We got California out of that war . .
So maybe we lost after all.
@@williamphillips6049 well in San Jacinto Santa Anna’s troops were ambushed while resting and they lost and Santa Anna was captured he was sent to Washington then exiled back to Mexico to basically live an embarrassing and depressing life
They bought time.like 300 Spartans.
1:58 That nexican charge looks epic with that soundtrack
The Mexicans would not have attacked like that.
Travis shoulda followed Houston's orders
This battle historically took place at night
It was early morning!
it began at 6 am. ended 90 mins later
This was made before the discovery of the Mexican Officer's account. Therefore the final days attack followed normal military tactics. Most battle of the time took place in the afternoon.
Was that a Whataburger tent at the beginning?
Read the letter Travis sent from the Alamo. The man had balls as big as Texas. They were heroes and that’s why they’re still revered to this day.
Balls as big as Texas? The fucker was a coward! He took the coward's way out. He committed suicide!
Roger Cortez
Ha! 😂 The one and only historical source for that fairy tale is from an ex slave who first said he was shot in the head defending the North wall, and then much later changed his story because he hated (quite naturally) being enslaved. Dozens of accounts of Travis courage. Even from Mexicans. (who also showed great courage) Your ignorance of history is okay, but you should read a little before you make foolish comments.
@@rogercortez2509 I’d read an actual history book before I said something else so stupid. I teach Texas History at the community college level. Travis nor any alamo defender killed themselves. Travis fought and died on the battlements.
@@rogercortez2509 Only way I could see you believing that is if youre a hardcore racist or unable to use google.
@@Monterey96 Okey Dokey.....one of the two eh...or both. But thanks for your opinion.
neve4 mentioned Blandersberg though. Where the British suffered morw casualties from chasing the Yanks than from fighting them.
Something else i'd like to point out is how in this, Crockets men get over whelmed really fast, when it was actually wall under Travis' command that was taken over first. Also it was a night time surprise attack. From all sides! and they always depict Davy Crocket as wearing dear skins with a hunting rifle. Those were just his hunting clothes. He never actually were them in public.
nothing more powerful in this version. he stands on a gate for 10 mins killing Mexicans like nothing and then dies- that is like kids power fantasy nothing adults should like.
They say Travis was one of the first to die in the last stand.
Actually the final attack on the alamo happened at 5am while the “defenders” were asleep. Santa Anna wanted to kill them in their sleep but a soldier started chanting which woke up the “defenders”
This movie was just too Hollywood.
A sad tragedy of men ordered to abandon and blow up the fort. The Alamo was a political decision by Travis ET AL. ignoring Sam Houston and the greater war.
Parts for the old movie " Jim Bowes Last Command " Go ARMY
I think they went a little overkill on Jamed Bowie
Crocket for white house
Yep, full uh b.s.!
It seems that every country/culture has their own famous last stand. In Greece, it's Thermopylae. In America it's either The Alamo, or Little Bighorn.
Texas belonged to Texas. not the us at that time so it's the Indian- army battle
+Smitty Boy Good point. But then again, since most of the Alamo defenders were of American decent (some very famous), you could make the argument of it being an American Last Stand.
so whats your point.
The best Alamo movie to date was the Last Command...1955.
then you must not have seen the 2004 film directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Billy Bob Thorton as DAVID( not DAVY) CROCKETT.
In today's world I wonder how many would stay and fight
They put up a good fight
Definitely the people long before us were braver and with stronger principles like honor and patriotism. They didn't clinch to shitty pathetic shameful lives like we do.
Inside high walls witb US manufactured guns
there is an earlier scene showing Scotsman John MacGregor with his bagpipes. But the actor is holding the chanter upside down. You'd think they'd just get a real piper to play the part. sloppy production
I've heard that Davey Crockett was later caught and executed
Warren Parker According to a supposed journal from Col.Enrique De La Pena who was with Santa Anna, that's true, he said two other officers tried to have Crockett spared & released but Santa Anna refused.
True...very true!
Yes I remember reading about that in our encyclopedia 1954, I believe he was captured with 5 others and they were put up against the wall and executed firing squad.
@@josephcavaliere9772 Some other sources claim he was stabbed to death with bayonets.
It's hard to believe that what really happened when they all died and movies never really tell u the truth about it anyway
The fallen defenders lie there as if they're just asleep. I know - I know, but it gives me the feeling that heroes can not truly die, for they live on in tales.
That’s how movies portrayed death on screen back then. Shot or stabbed once and immediately die, with no blood.
I wish they showed this more realistic, sweaty, dirty and dangerous. Most defenders had multiple wounds that they fought through before they were overwhelmed. Some were stabbed 20x with the bayonet.
they re not heroes!
The History books say they were all laid low, but the truth of it is it just ain't so . They wiil live and their legends grow so long as we remember the Alamo
They were no heroes they were pirates and slave holding pigs
Crocket for white house
REMEMBER THE ALAMO
god bless the 185
Rest in peace 185
They were just pigs
Men were brave fight for freedom
Yet they had slaves inside alamo walls who wanted no fighting hell they might have even joined up the mexican army
180 adventurers and cowboys held back the Mexican Army for 13 days.... what a catastrophic defeat for the invaders.
ponyboy314 again you are wrong ...Under Iturbide, American colonists had been allowed to settle in Texas. About the only condition to owning land was that all immigrant landowners had to be Catholic, an easy enough problem to overcome for non-Catholics. William Travis, for instance, became Catholic to purchase land, but remained a staunch Methodist until the day he died at the Alamo. Unfortunately, the fledgling Republic of Mexico was born bankrupt and ill-prepared for self-government. In fact, during its first 15 years of independence, it had 13 presidents. All of them struggled for power, shifting between the liberal-leaning Federalists and the dictatorial Centralists. The first president was a Federalist, General Guadalupe Victoria, a hero of the revolution who had changed his name from Miguel Felix Hernandez to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, for his victory. It was he who established the liberal Constitution of 1824 that so infuriated Santa Anna and that would lead to the Battle of the Alamo 12 years later. It was also during this tumultuous struggle for control of Mexico’s presidency that the northern territory of Texas was mostly neglected. When Mexico redefined its territories in 1824, Texas was the only separate territory to lose its independence. It was joined to Coahuila and the capital was moved from San Antonio de Béxar to Saltillo. Armed citizens gathered in protest. In September 1835, they petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the 1824 Constitution, which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners. His answer was to send his crack troops, commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cós, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans. October 1835 found San Antonio de Béxar under military rule, with 1,200 Mexican troops under General Cós’ command. When Cós ordered the small community of Gonzales, about 50 miles east of San Antonio, to return a cannon loaned to the town for defense against Indian attack-rightfully fearing that the citizens might use the cannon against his own troops-the Gonzales residents refused. Come and take it! they taunted, setting off a charge of old chains and scrap iron, shot from the mouth of the tiny cannon mounted on ox-cart wheels. Although the only casualty was one Mexican soldier, Gonzales became enshrined in history as the Lexington of Texas. The Texas Revolution was on. On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cós’ troops in San Antonio de Béxar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Béxar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cós finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande. To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy. The siege of Béxar and Cós’ surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners. Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him. Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cós had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Béxar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower-by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault. Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World….I shall never surrender or retreat….Victory or Death! is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of no quarter. Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett’s fiddle and John McGregor’s bagpipes. In fact, Davy’s fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy’s lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis’ pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190. At 4 o’clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo’s walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin’s Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna’s first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis’ artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself. Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna’s loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as a small affair, but one of his officers commented, Another such victory will ruin us. As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire-except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cós’ presidio guards. Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo’s many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died. One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the grand canyon of Texas, and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it’s logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, By God, I wasn’t ready to die. It is Rose’s tale of the line in the dust that has become legend. - See more at: www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo#sthash.2BdRFiDA.dpuf
ponyboy314 Actually Santa Anna held up for thirteen days waiting for the rest of his troops who were bringing up the larger siege cannons they needed to breach the walls. He never expected Houston's army to arrive. There were actually three attacks. The first two were poorly thought out and executed. The Mexican army reformed and attacked again after each attack was repelled. It was the third attack that finally breached the walls. The entire battle lasted about two hours. The Mexican loses were around 600 which conforms with the normal casualty rate for attacking a fortified position in those days. About 3 to 1 loss rate for the attackers was normal. You know just enough about history to be dangerous to yourself. And your bias makes it even more perilous.
ponyboy314 His name was Louis Rose. He had been a soldier in Napolean's army. Moses was the name of Travis' slave and is the one who pointed out his body.
Its Joe not moses
But a lot of the defenders that left the Alamo formed with Sam Houston ,and they did has a survivor ,the Mexican solider said ,they made him
Dig those rubber ladders!
Travis was one of the first defenders to die being shot in the head at the North Wall before any Mexican troops had entered the compound.. Crockett was one of the last to die being brutally killed by officers loyal to Santa Anna after he and a small group were captured defending the Chapel. Also, no Mexican cavalry entered the compound, they ruthlessly pursued and lanced the few defenders who tried to escape.
Great to know. Thanks for that little tidbit.
Crockery’s manner of death is not certain. Susannah Dickinson herself said she saw his body surrounded by corpses and hacked to bits, some say he was captured and executed, others say he was part of a group that attempted to escape and was run down by cavalry.
200 Texans and30 Tennesseans vrs 2000 Mexicans ,and it still took 13 days to beat um...
Actually 6,000 which made even worse on them
The Mexicans didn't even attack until day 13. Which took them 25 minutes to slaughter all of em lol
The bravery and sacrifice of the men at the Alamo gave Sam Houston crucial time to raise and prepare an Army in East Texas that would route Santa Ana at San Jacinto about a month later. It just goes to show that a few dedicated men devoted to a cause larger than themselves can change the world.
So colonizing is a greater cause
@@thisislaflaretv5250 why not dick head
@@thisislaflaretv5250 didnt stop the rest of the world, why should we be judged any diffrent?
@@onlythewise1 I'm glad they have a place for individuals like you to express how uncivilized you with out getting your mouth kicked opened. Advice if you won't say it to a person's face. Trust me you wouldn't say it to my face without me demonstrating. Just disagree and keep it moving
@@LeftBlankIntentionally Because European/Caucasian influence and dominance has put the Earth on a course of destruction
John Wayne's the Alamo (1960) was the best
Not close to being accurate though.
Propagandist movie!!
They were born across America but they died Texas heroes!
bob steppenwolf I take exception to your insults. I am northern born and raised. We have nothing like the crap you have described. At least no one is rioting and looting up here.
Missouri is technically the midwest if thats what your talking about .
Santa Anna fancied himself the “Napoleon” of the west. What a joke! Lol 😂
Santa Anna irritated Davey Crockett because of his arrogance attitude. Davey fired a shot, at Santa Anna, which slightly wounded him. It was a warning shot to damped that arrogance attitude. Too bad the shot didn't kill Santa Anna. Later, though, he died in disgrace, disabled and blind.
@@sergeantmasson3669 and with one leg!
These alamo "heroes" were only fighting like confederates...slave-holding pigs
You're the joke! "OK class open up your textbook where we study the presidente David Lynn" Oh that's right that chapter doesn't exist!!!
Santa Anna did what he could to defend his country from illegal immigrants!
@@newvibes789 I don’t argue with ignorant people! Santa Anna did refer to himself as the Napoleon of the West. Based on his lack of tactical skills he was no Napoleon! Thus the joke! Don’t put forth ignorant comments. Don’t disrespect your elders. Thus ends the lesson.
The most recent movie with Jason Patric and Billy Bob Thornton is probably the most historically accurate. At least they have it at night. Travis died early in the attack. Nobody knows exactly how Crockett died. The attack at San Jacinto in the last movie was also well done. Dennis Quaid always looked like he was constipated.
@Jack Hamilton nobody knows exactly what was said, or even who was a survivor of the attack, though some sources say that Crockett was among those who did. The screamer thing was probably artistic license, but it did work for me.
@Bewilderbeast I do believe that the attack was scheduled to take place at night, it has always been staged in daylight for filming purposes. It makes more sense to attack at night strategically. The element of surprise is a great advantage.
@@tomvernon2123 Couriers carried out messages, and letters, quite often before the Alamo was lost which is why the 2004 movie version was more accurate.
I know how Coward Crockett died! The f**ker was executed! Timidthy Travis took the craven's way out. The f**ker committed suicide.
Man,must be scary to be defending there
Not scary ! DEADLY.
I only watch this for the uniforms :/
Don't. They are crap
Remember the alamo.
Top 5 Alamo Movies 5.13 days of Glory4.Matrys of The Alamo (First ever Alamo movie)3.John Wayne's Alamo2.Texas Rising(After The Alamo)1.The Alamo (2004 2nd biggest budget blockbuster film)Watch it it's good
Texas Rising is horrible history.
You should see Alamo : Price of Freedom (1988). Only 48 minutes, but one hell of a final battle scene!!