The Alamo - Triumph and Tragedy in History

Our video for the 2007 History Day Contest

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• history
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• and
• tragedy
• 2007
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• alamo

[pregnantlameboy]

is it okay if i use SOME of the information you have here in an essay?

its not for competition, i swear

[swashthebuckler]

lol it's fine this was from 2 years ago i don't need it any more

[galatian5]

Davy Crockett was the Chuck Norris of his day.

Crockett could whip his weight in wild cats

He once rode a lightening trail.

And most of all, "Kilt him a bar when he was only 3."

[jakeap89]

Slavery existed in Egypt until 1960. White slaves were still held. All countries have done horrible things. America is a place of ideals like freedom. I think its great your patriotic for your country but bashing another country just makes you sound insecure and weak. God bless America, and Mexico, and for that matter the world.

[wthjrtx1]

@atgmai

Because we need to be diversified.. Thats fine..I'm for it. But My family died for TEXAS. Respect will be paid or a beaten will occur...haha..

[wthjrtx1]

I like it..Glad I found it..I am a Cousin To William Travis..Whos name was passed onto me.. God Bless TEXAS..Victory or Death!!!!

[MuhammadsStillASissy]

@Tellgryn too true.

[MuhammadsStillASissy]

@rouseg7 WHAT????? The bodies were burned in 3 pires, not "where they fell." As for men escaping, while it has been claimed that 12-14 men exited the S."wall" and were killed in a cottonwood thicket, the only KNOWN person to have tried to escape during the battle (as told by Reuben M. Potter) jumped off a low point on the E. side of the chapel and had a girl child wraped in a sash. They both were killed almost instantly before they could make cover in the drainage ditch there.

[MuhammadsStillASissy]

@RileyRandom Who estimated that 50 men escaped the walls?

[FrLawRE]

Well done! A very interesting video. The only negative thing is that the music was just a bit too loud and sometimes made it difficult to make out what the narrator was saying.

[jimmyggh1]

Good vid! thanks!

[RileyRandom]

@Tellgryn Well yeah, I know. My point is that there are conflicting stories from all over. We just don't know. That's part of the mystery of The Alamo. :)

[Tellgryn]

@RileyRandom The second part of the Pena letters are fake and not to be trusted at all. A number of Alamo documents were forged in the middle 30's into the 1950's. The Pena letters (2nd part) do not stand up under close examination, as do many other accounts.

Like many battles we will never know everything that happend at the Alamo, but we can with the the aid of our knowledge today eliminate most fakes. If not for the money spend on the Pena letters, it would have long been in the dust.

[RileyRandom]

@Tellgryn They both reported seeing him, yeah, but in the lower courtyard in front of the church. However we can't be sure. Jose de la Pena claimed he was executed after the battle, other say he was along the west wall or north wall. We just can't be sure. It's more than likely he died in front of the church.