Good morning, folks. Times change. History is great to study. Frankly, many of the woke liberals today want to destroy history, but not me. You hang around my blog and you'll find I'm a square-shootin', root-n-tootin' cowboy at heart.
History of the Alamo
First of all, I've visited The Alamo inside and out. But I want to give you a brief history of it so y'all can understand it properly.
The Alamo is located in San Antonio, Texas. It's 275 miles or about 443 kilometers southwest of my place in Dallas. It's a 4-plus hour drive, but I can make it in about 3-and-a-half hours with my lead foot if there's no traffic. By horse it would take about 12 hours, figuring in stopping for food and water and whatnot. A decent horse can travel 50 miles in a day.
The Battle of the Alamo happened in 1836, back when I was just a pup. But that old building has been around for 300 years, partners. It was previously a Spanish mission called Mission San Antonio de Valero. Seems like the old Spaniards controlled a lot of territory 300 years ago after they won their independence from Spain. Heck, they even had and still have missions from below San Diego, California, and all the way to northern California, some still open.
Lead up to the Battle
26-year-old William Barret Travis and about 150 men holed up in The Alamo on February 23, 1836. They had 18 cannons and not a lot of ammo, food or their supplies. What they did have was a fierce fighting spirit and a whole darn bunch of determination.
By this date, Texans had defeated the Mexicans and chased them south across the border back into Mexico. Most of the Texas government army and a majority of the volunteers returned to their homes truly believing the war was over for Texas.
Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna wasn't pleased with the Mexican garrisons being defeated and led his massive army of into Texas to put down the rebellion and claim Texas for Mexico.
Inside the Alamo were Travis, James Bowie (yes, the same name as the knife) and Davy Crockett.
The Battle
General Santa Anna and his army laid siege to the Alamo. Travis parlayed (that's met for you non-Texans) with some of Santa Anna's leaders. Santa Anna demanded all the men surrender. IF they did, he would determine whether they lived or died. Travis answered with a cannon round. Gol-dang! Ye-hah!
Santa Anna had his men raise a red flag, meaning that everyone inside of the Alamo would die. Meanwhile, on March 1, 32 more men from the town of Gonzales rode up to help out at the Alamo. This brought the number of fighters close to 200 men. On the next day, Texas declared its independence from Mexico and the fight was on 4 days later.
The Mexicans had 4,000 men, the Texas defenders 200. The defenders were surrounded and the battle began. In 90 minutes it was over. All fighters inside the Alamo were dead. Women, children, and some slaves were allowed to live.
Santa Anna and his army were shocked at the ferocity of the Texans.
The Texans never gave up, however. A later major battle, The Battle of San Jacinto, was fought on April 21 and over in 18 minutes. "Remember the Alamo!" was the cry of the Texas fighters.
Santa Anna's army was routed and chased back into Mexico for good. Texas remained independent and does so today. It is the only state among 50 that has it written in their Constitution that they can secede from the United States.
If the battle was fought today
With all the woke soy boys up the road in Austin (Travis County) the battle would have been over before it began. They would have protests and activists would be tweeting up a storm. Facebook posts would cross people's timelines.
But the Mexicans still don't play today. They are a tough bunch of hombres. A few rounds into the crowd as they picketed and sipped their latte's and the woke mob would s*it and get!
After that, us real Texans would mop up the Mescans and run 'em back south. Sadly, they would come back as criminals into the U.S., crossing the Rio Grande River and other entry points while the current wanna-be president says nothing of note.
@Scotty17 advised me to put this on my blog so here it is: Free images from https://pixabay.com/
Sure right about Texas. Been there when travelling west years ago. Must have taken me a full day driving nonstop across the state. Huge1 Friendly but steadfast. About liberals there, your governor is a strong leader and puts up with no guff. Good for him and the people of Texas. We have weak leadership in New York.