traditionalists who support the heroic narrative of the battle insist that David Crockett died fighting and was not captured and executed as portrayed in the 2004 movie, "The Alamo." It was ...

Austin, Davy Crockett, Juan Seguin and many others died for what they believed in — a free Texas. Now, San Antonio strives to become something that would cause the fighters at the Alamo to grieve.

Mexican forces captured the Alamo in San Antonio, killing the last of 187 defenders who had held out in the fortified Texas mission for 13 days. Frontiersman Davy Crockett was among those killed ...

History of the Alamo The Alamo, originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero, has roots that stretch back to the ...

Davy Crockett is one of the most enigmatic ... The final chapter of Crockett’s life took place at the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Crockett, along with hundreds of other defenders of the fort, was ...

He explained to her what had happened, telling Jackson Lee (who died last July ... Last time I checked, Davy Crockett . . .” He trails off, but you get the bumper sticker slogan for the point ...

Not just Davy Crockett, but his father’s and grandfather’s roles ... He left Tennessee to take part in the Texas revolution against Mexico and was killed in the Alamo in 1836. It is said he and other ...

In 1836, the Alamo in San Antonio ... including such fabled fighters as William Travis, James Bowie and Davy Crockett. In 1869, chemist Dmitri Mendeleev introduced his concept of a periodic ...

I am a fan of the mountain men who conquered the American frontier, whether lands beyond the Appalachian mountains or the ...