Left unsaid, though according to many historians, is that the real goal of Texas independence was to protect a slave system that was under threat of abolition by the Mexican authorities. The Alamo is at the center of the Texas creation story, purportedly a symbol of courage in the willingness to fight to the end for a noble cause, to secure freedom from Mexican tyranny. “Remember the Alamo” became the revenge slogan that presumably drove other independence fighters led by Sam Houston six weeks later to definitively defeat Santa Anna’s troops at the Battle of San Jacinto and secure Texas independence. Widely portrayed as a shrine to freedom, it is the site of an early battle of the Texas War of Independence where Mexican troops, led by President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna, defeated and killed some 189-the exact figure is in dispute-independence fighters, including frontier icons Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, and William Travis. Davy Crockett depicted in The Fall of the Alamo (1903), Robert Jenkins Onderdonk.Įach year before the pandemic over two and one-half million people visited the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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