8 interesting facts about Alamo's battle

8 interesting facts about Alamo's battle

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Part of the Texas revolution between 1835 and 1836, Alamo's battle is an event that most people hear about some points in their lives.

However, how many people you know who can tell you something interesting about this battle?

Maybe not much!

If you don't have anything worthy of Alamo, it can be the time you read on some interesting facts.

The war was all starting after the Mexican Independent War (1810-2821).

After the war, Texas officially became part of Mexico.

Not many people are living there, which means that many American immigrants decided to switch to Texas.

When the number of immigrants begins far beyond Mexican, a conflict begins.

When a centralized system was given by the Mexican government, the government blamed immigrants and therefore the battle began.

The name of the battle begins with Alamo mission.

Alamo's mission is a task founded in 1718 in Texas's San Antonio area and is designed to educate native Americans.

The name "Alamo" is the Spanish word for "Cottonwood", because there is an area filled with cotton trees near Alamo mission.

As a result, the battle took place here was cleverly named "Alamo's battle".

The battle of the Alamo website is currently the number one tourist destination in Texas.

The battle also led to many people who knew about this area as the location of the battle, instead of the task was established over 100 years ago.

As well as Texas's number one travel site, it is also one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States.

The battle is well recorded through both fiction / non-fiction and movie documents.

Since 1843, there are many non-fictional literature written about Alamo's battle.

With the turning point of the 20th century, many more fictional works were available, including Disney's Davy Crockett and the movie in 1960, Alamo, the famous Western actor John Wayne.

Nearly 50% of men fighting the battle are volunteers.

The official command of the battle was a man named James Neill, but after family problems arising, he left Colonel William Travis in his position.

Because a lot of men are volunteers can leave anytime, they didn't listen to Travis but instead choose to receive orders from Jim Bowie, who is not the commander.

This situation caused many problems, but when the Mexican army and Davy Crockett participated, all parties were forced to improve the stress situation and focus on battle.

Davy Crockett was extremely charismatic.

Many people have heard about Davy Crockett from the story of legend or fables, but he is a border that has appeared with a few volunteers from Tennessee and his own stories and stories from

Since then, he is a MP and is a charismatic person that many people have heated to easily.

In the battle, he will play his Fiddle for soldiers and volunteers.

American immigrants hide in cotton wood.

Mexican Army Santa Anna came to San Antonio on February 23, 1836.

He was leading a large army but decided not to attack American immigrants living in Texas immediately.

When listening to news about the appearance of Santa Anna, people living in the area are found to hide in Alamo.

It is interesting to note that at this moment, they can easily escape the Mexican army completely, since General Santa Anna did not close all the exits.

However, they believe that the battle can win and the land is free from Mexican people.

Colonel William Travis asked the man to fight with their death.

Travis was left in charge and decided a night to draw a line on the sand and watched his men ready to stay and fight their death in Alamo's battle.

Only one man refused - a man named Moses Rose became famous for leaving Alamo that night.

Even Jim Bowie, who is part of the stressful situation between themselves and Travis, is required to bring lines because he is sick and cannot walk without support.

When they hurriedly fight, do not know whether they can live or not (but are very aware of the dangers), their fighting cry is "Remembering Alamo!"

Evaluation by the number of movies, books and stories coming from this historic event, it has been clearly remembered for many years.