The Battle of the Alamo as portayed in the movie, "The Alamo: 13 Days To Glory" !!!! I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS CONTENT ! PROPERTY OF ITS RESPECTIVE OWNERS !!!!
Texas no era.de uds. Mexico les dio la mano y uds agarraron asta la pata . Pero todo imperio o reynado llega a su fin. Lo gue es lo mismo España tardo 600 años en expulsar a los moros
I remember watching this as a kid growing up and playing along with toy soldiers from The Alamo soldier and/or battle toy set that had soldiers, cannons, horses, and named soldiers. As well as using cotton balls as smoke on the ends of the guns and cannons and stuff in a makeshift as well as using sticks to make scale sized fences for the soldiers to hide behind in my Alamo battle recreation. God I miss those days, I really enjoyed those toy soldier sets. I wish I still had them to play with at times =D.
Every year here they do a battle reenactment of the Alamo for Texas Independence day festivities. The chief gunner was Gregorio Esparza. There was a contingent of Tejanos native born Texans of Mexican descent. Last message rider out to Houston was Juan Seguin son of the mayor of San Antonio. After San Jacinto he fulfilled his promise to his men at the Alamo and buried them which the Mexicans hadnt done.
"the Alamo:13 Days to Glory." (1987,Historical Drama/Western). Cast: James Arness: Alec Baldwin: Brian Keith: Raul Julia: David Ogden Stiers: Lorne Greene: Kathleen York: Jim Metzler: Jon Lindstrom: Tom Schanley: Gene Evans: Isela Vega: Laura Harring: Ethan Wayne: Fernando Allende: Hinton Battle: David Sheiner: Tom Everett: Buck Taylor: Grainger Hines: Phil Casados: Tony Becker: Stan Ivar: Noble Willingham John Furlong: Nicky Blair: Jay Baker: Dale Swann: Jan Triska: Gary Kasper: Loyda Ramos:
Davy Crockett, William Travis, Jim Bowie, & the rest of 185 or more men, what I call a "Real Heroes!!!!" They all knew they going to die, but they fought right to the 13th day. Santa Anna's case, he was a cruel & extremely evil Dictator, was a Monster!!!!! Thank God, few months later, @ the "Battle of San Jacinto," Sam Houston, & all of his Army, capture Santa Anna, & Texas became free!!!!! Love what, Sam Houston, told his men, Shouting, this words, "Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad!!!!"
The Mexican soldiers are actually the good guys in the movie, since they defended the territorial integrity of Mexico, and the illegal immigrants who lived in the Mexican province of Texas, the bad guys, since they wanted to balkanize Texas in Mexico. Because they do not tell the truth, that the US-American Pirates stole Texas from Mexico to continue maintaining the labor system based on slavery, when it had been abolished in Mexico since 1810. Santa Anna is not really the villain of the movie. VIVA LA TEXAS MEXICANA
@@Sasskitten I like to remember and tell the true story, not the one invented by Uncle Sam, who invented a truly impressive story to justify an illegitimate robbery of Mexico
I respectfully, disagree with you. Santa Ana, was not a "Hero," he wss a "Evil Dictator!!!" Texas deserves, to be free, from a Dictator, like Santa Ana. About Sam Houston, he & his men, was another, "Heroes, in my Book!!!" Thank God, for the "Battle of San Jacinto!!!!" If it was not for them, Texas would NOT be FREE, from Santa Ana!!!
If I was inside, of the "Alamo," & I knew I was going to "Die," I rather "Die as a Hero," to fight for "Texas' Independence," over a "Disgusting Dictator, Santa Ana." To give Sam Houston, "To organize an army!!!"
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And the guy's,at 4.54,grandson played a pivotal role at Rorkes Drift many years later!
It was pretty cool to see Travis fighting to the death near the end of the battle, but in reality, he actually died pretty early in the battle. He was on top of the north wall, firing his shotgun down at the Mexican soldiers huddled under the wall, and then a stray Mexican bullet struck him in the head.
@@rogercortez2509 We don't Know if he Killed Himself or not But he most Likely Didnt According to one persons chat Travis was hit by a cannon ball While manning a cannon and it Killed Him.
Oh wow I didnt realize you were there! That's super cool maybe you could to the ladies and gentlemen a second by second happening of events since you seem to know for a fact that Travis killed himself
Oh boy! Were all laughing our asses off....everybody on Three....one two Three! Everybody laugh! This sgauden02 is sure a funny guy! Or is he stupid? Doesn't matter, everybody have a good laugh on this guy. 1
I am English and even I know that the defenders of the Alamo were properly brave and that they knew exactly what was going to happen to them but held out anyway
@@carlosbarboza6826 shut up barboza, In fact WHY DO U EVEN KEEP COMING HERE? STOP WATCHING ALAMO VIDEOS IF UR GONNA Talk trash about it jeez don't u have something better to do? I mean my god how many times u gonna keep coming here
@@Maybedakidnamedaidan what are you talking about you weren't even there David Crockett and Travis ran like jackrabbits and were caught and executed along with a few others they stole this land from Mexico how would you like it if someone comes over by force and take half of the United States and call themselves hero's
Been to the San Jac monument a few times for my Bday as a kid. Always cool to see the museum and then go jump on the USS Texas and sink a lot of tonnage on the Houston Ship channel
+jermster17 Now that is a fast answer! One of my regrets in life was not stopping by the Alamo. I was driving through there at 3 am helping my son drive to Ft. Benning. 3rd ID..... we could have diven the short distance to see it from the freeway. But didnt. Wish I had. Have read a lot on the battle. Great story. Movies never get it right but this one tried at least. Thanks for posting Midnight in Az here!!! LOL
I love this movie. Watches it for the first time in 7tjh grade Texas History and have the VhS of it but haven't gotten a DVD so far :( love love love this movie
Unfortunately, the assault took place at around 4:00 am on March 6th. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns approached without bugles or bands, in total silence with fixed bayonets and unloaded muskets. They were over the North wall before any of the defenders knew what was happening. Most of the Mexican casualties likely came from 'friendly' fire as the rearward columns loaded their muskets before they entered the fort.
Not quite. 5-6 AM. That's a big difference weather-wise from 4 AM. Not noon-like as the movie shows but also not pitch black either. Defenders beat back 2 waves. 30 minutes of gunshots followed by 30 minutes of hand-to-hand fighting after the walls were breached. Not the 10 minutes that Hollywood shows in this scene.
Also, evidence has been released that Crockett and few others actually did escape the Alamo. They sneaked out during the fighting, unfortunately for them Gen. Santa Ana placed units around the Alamo for that sole reason, when Crockett was captured, Gen. Santa Ana gave specific details to execute all of them for being cowards....
There's a lot of BS about the Alamo. All that really matters is that it "encouraged" the Mexican War. We got California out of that war . . So maybe we lost after all.
@@williamphillips6049 well in San Jacinto Santa Anna’s troops were ambushed while resting and they lost and Santa Anna was captured he was sent to Washington then exiled back to Mexico to basically live an embarrassing and depressing life
The bravery and sacrifice of the men at the Alamo gave Sam Houston crucial time to raise and prepare an Army in East Texas that would route Santa Ana at San Jacinto about a month later. It just goes to show that a few dedicated men devoted to a cause larger than themselves can change the world.
@@onlythewise1 I'm glad they have a place for individuals like you to express how uncivilized you with out getting your mouth kicked opened. Advice if you won't say it to a person's face. Trust me you wouldn't say it to my face without me demonstrating. Just disagree and keep it moving
Roger Cortez Ha! 😂 The one and only historical source for that fairy tale is from an ex slave who first said he was shot in the head defending the North wall, and then much later changed his story because he hated (quite naturally) being enslaved. Dozens of accounts of Travis courage. Even from Mexicans. (who also showed great courage) Your ignorance of history is okay, but you should read a little before you make foolish comments.
@@rogercortez2509 I’d read an actual history book before I said something else so stupid. I teach Texas History at the community college level. Travis nor any alamo defender killed themselves. Travis fought and died on the battlements.
Actually reading eyewitness Mexican veteran accounts of the battle Crockett was stowed away in a well fortified room encroaching numerous casualties on the Mexican and they finally killed him when they charged the room with many Mexicans but not without him leaving about 15 dead in the melee.
a good friend of mine from england went to visit the alamo many years back after hearing so much about it regarding them that fell in the famous battle a plaque outside read scots, irish, english, norwegians , french, ect, ect, ect ? all foreigners after all the hype he was not impressed !
I am Polish my uncles fought in WW II. In America we retain our ethnic heritage even if we are born citizens of the U S. They may have come from all those countries but except for the Tennessee people they were all citizens of Mexico fighting for the Mexican Constitution of 1824. As were states all over Mexico in revolt over Santa Ana abrocating it. Mexico had been in revolt for 2 years over that. And he treated the Mexican people no better.
What gets me, is the big guy with tomahawk. That guy is all messed up but still trying to muster the strength to get back in the fight. Dies defending his post.
Most of the large number Mexican battle shots were from John Wayne's Alamo. You can see the obvious difference in the film grain. Some shots are from other Alamo films and then colorized. Brian Keith looked nothing like Crockett. And Travis was killed very early on the North Wall. Not near the end fighting on a well near the chapel.
Into music in a big way and this was composed by Peter Bernstein son of the great Elmer you can tell by the score that he had combined with his father on this movie
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas. Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810. Mexico land of racial equality.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Well actually Mexico invited the Americans to settle Texas for them, which they did. Then Santa Anna abolished the Mexican constitution of 1824 and declared himself dictator. First Santa Anna killed off many Mexican patriots who didn't want to live under a dictator. After that he made the mistake of also attacking the people of Texas who didn't want a dictator either and so declared independence. Even though he outnumber the Texans, he was soundly defeated and was lucky that they spared his life. Which is more than he did for the heroes of the Alamo.
@@matthewstavrowsky9998 Although the Mexican government system changed, Texas did not have the right to separate, since it was a Mexican province, its sovereignty depended on the entire Mexican state. The president had the right to abolish the autonomy of the Mexican territories, as well as to grant autonomy, since it was his power as head of state. Texas was balkanized by immigrants from the United States, that's the truth.
maybe but I think Covid might slow it down. Can you imagine a battle where they make use of social distancing? Everyone has to run six feet apart from each other and wear masks. And Disinfect their bullets before use.
@@Mr508films To each their own I suppose but I totally disagree. I am one to appreciate accuracy, but there are other factors that can make it a great flick. No other Alamo documented on film brings you together with the defenders such, makes you feel their situation, and puts across their heroism nearly as good as 13 days. Most of the actors do a great job making you truly want to root for them even knowing the end. Wayne's Alamo didn't do this, and the modern travesty certainly didn't. That's almost more important since it instills the idea of why the Alamo is important in the first place, thereby preserving the real history through Hollywood on screen heart strings even with story telling intertwined throughout. In other words, this one makes you actually want to 'Remember the Alamo'! Frankly the only thing that every bothered me was the ages of Crocket and Bowie as clearly they felt Arness and Keith star power was worth seeing actors way too old for the parts. But clearly you can see I'm probably a bit biased with nostalgia and pride, and given that few even know about this film most must agree more with you.
@@lonewulf44 I disagree with you on most of your defense of this travesty of a film. To call the 2004 version. a travesty is wrong. At least they had their final battle take place when it happened in the Early morning before dawn. They had more accurate and age appropriate actors for the roles of Crockett and Bowie. And they didn't dress Crockett in buckskins. The only issues I had were with the music and the layout of the fort where the Long barracks joined the chapel. But I look at Wayne's Alamo and 13 Days as two of the worst Alamo films. 13 Days being the worst because it totally ignored how the flow of the battle went. The Mexicans breached the North wall and the flooded the compound. Travis was the first of the trinity to die. Bowie was not even 50% effective, had no strength to stand. In fact the movies could not really depict how they killed him. It would be too graphic. They raised him up on bayonets. And I believe that Crockett was executed after the battle based on the journal of Mexican General De la Pena. The 2004 version got most of these details correct. 13 Days didn't even try.I've talked to employees at the Alamo and most of them feel that the 2004 version. is the most accurate version. The Price of Freedom film is better than 13 days.
@@barbarasherman6007 They may have portrayed actual people, that doesn't change the fact that film lacked a ton of historical accuracy and liberally stole film from other previous Alamo films.. First, there was no English General in Santa Anna's Staff, the final battle took place at about 4-5 am when it was still dark. Travis was one of the very first to die on the North wall. Not at the well near the South Gate. And Bowie was not in in the church when he died, nor was he able to stand up. He was probably almost dead before thew battle began. Do some research and learn the real story. Oh, in the 2004 version , the actors also portrayed the real defenders and did so more accurately.
I thought so about seeing the same person being physically killed a number of ways . I heard mine say " I came alive again to quick " . In the video it shows that a few of us recovered and fought again a number of times ...
Something else i'd like to point out is how in this, Crockets men get over whelmed really fast, when it was actually wall under Travis' command that was taken over first. Also it was a night time surprise attack. From all sides! and they always depict Davy Crocket as wearing dear skins with a hunting rifle. Those were just his hunting clothes. He never actually were them in public.
nothing more powerful in this version. he stands on a gate for 10 mins killing Mexicans like nothing and then dies- that is like kids power fantasy nothing adults should like.
Actually the final attack on the alamo happened at 5am while the “defenders” were asleep. Santa Anna wanted to kill them in their sleep but a soldier started chanting which woke up the “defenders”
The fallen defenders lie there as if they're just asleep. I know - I know, but it gives me the feeling that heroes can not truly die, for they live on in tales.
I wish they showed this more realistic, sweaty, dirty and dangerous. Most defenders had multiple wounds that they fought through before they were overwhelmed. Some were stabbed 20x with the bayonet.
The History books say they were all laid low, but the truth of it is it just ain't so . They wiil live and their legends grow so long as we remember the Alamo
OJ Colegrove...Yes...I was an extra (Mexican soldier).and that is John Wayne's son...They were all introduced to us...The movie was filmed at Happy Shahans in Bracketville, Texas...
Sorry to disappoint all of you Alamo fans, but Travis(Alec Baldwin) was one of the first to fall, and on the North Wall, instead of one of the last to fall fighting like Zorro in the courtyard.
I dont think anyone is disappointed. Someone whose done any research about the alamo at all knows that already. More than likely if someone is watching an alamo movie, theyre interested enough to look up the facts as well.
William B Travis was killed 15 minutes before the battle started, Bowie was in sick bed. I visited san Antonio Texas from Australia in 2014, worth a visit after you studying battle and history. seen all the movies, and studied the real battle. Brave people.
That is correct Derek! The conditions at the mission were atrocious! Additionally food was scarce, there was dissention among the different factions, munnitions were of poor quality, untrained men who couldn't aim a cannon, an immature boy, Travis, leading a group of grown misfits who were conned into the Alamo with a promise of acreage and money. As you know they didn't collect. Additionally psuedo-historians say it was a 13 day siege. Not so! The 13 days of the event was, like a great tactician he was, Santa Ana sent probes toward the mission to find all the weak defensive positions. And yes, some Mexicans were killed in their probing. The defensive position they showed in the wee hours of the morning on that day was that they were asleep in their quarters. The 13 day probing of the mission was successful and on March 6th with all the info garnered from the probes Santa Ana launched his attack and wiped out a bunch of crybabies and their cowardly boy who chose to take the coward's way out...flat out SUICIDE! Yup! A real hero that Travis guy!
....and hows'bout that Davy Crockett fella. He and the boy, Tavis! The "COWARDLY DUO"! One committed suicide and 'ol Davy tucked his tail between his legs and ran off like the skunk he was. These are the phonies that white folk there about worship! And still do so today!
+Smitty Boy Good point. But then again, since most of the Alamo defenders were of American decent (some very famous), you could make the argument of it being an American Last Stand.
1 year later I hate to inform all of you Alamo buffs but the Mexican Cavalry was not used in the actual final assault but instead was positioned on the perimeters to keep reinforcements from coming in and the defenders from escaping the Mission.
The clip is great for dramatic effect, with a few mistakes. Travis was actually one of the first to die dew to a shot to the head. The battle started in the early morning hours, most likely just after sunrise. It is believed by most that Bowie was probably unconscious when he was killed.
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The most recent movie with Jason Patric and Billy Bob Thornton is probably the most historically accurate. At least they have it at night. Travis died early in the attack. Nobody knows exactly how Crockett died. The attack at San Jacinto in the last movie was also well done. Dennis Quaid always looked like he was constipated.
@Jack Hamilton nobody knows exactly what was said, or even who was a survivor of the attack, though some sources say that Crockett was among those who did. The screamer thing was probably artistic license, but it did work for me.
@Bewilderbeast I do believe that the attack was scheduled to take place at night, it has always been staged in daylight for filming purposes. It makes more sense to attack at night strategically. The element of surprise is a great advantage.
@@tomvernon2123 Couriers carried out messages, and letters, quite often before the Alamo was lost which is why the 2004 movie version was more accurate.
Dallas DautermanD I went to school with and our family's were friends with John Lee Handcock- wrote produced, directed, and did the time period costumes for that movie.
Travis was one of the first defenders to die being shot in the head at the North Wall before any Mexican troops had entered the compound.. Crockett was one of the last to die being brutally killed by officers loyal to Santa Anna after he and a small group were captured defending the Chapel. Also, no Mexican cavalry entered the compound, they ruthlessly pursued and lanced the few defenders who tried to escape.
Crockery’s manner of death is not certain. Susannah Dickinson herself said she saw his body surrounded by corpses and hacked to bits, some say he was captured and executed, others say he was part of a group that attempted to escape and was run down by cavalry.
ponyboy314 again you are wrong ...Under Iturbide, American colonists had been allowed to settle in Texas. About the only condition to owning land was that all immigrant landowners had to be Catholic, an easy enough problem to overcome for non-Catholics. William Travis, for instance, became Catholic to purchase land, but remained a staunch Methodist until the day he died at the Alamo. Unfortunately, the fledgling Republic of Mexico was born bankrupt and ill-prepared for self-government. In fact, during its first 15 years of independence, it had 13 presidents. All of them struggled for power, shifting between the liberal-leaning Federalists and the dictatorial Centralists. The first president was a Federalist, General Guadalupe Victoria, a hero of the revolution who had changed his name from Miguel Felix Hernandez to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, for his victory. It was he who established the liberal Constitution of 1824 that so infuriated Santa Anna and that would lead to the Battle of the Alamo 12 years later. It was also during this tumultuous struggle for control of Mexico’s presidency that the northern territory of Texas was mostly neglected. When Mexico redefined its territories in 1824, Texas was the only separate territory to lose its independence. It was joined to Coahuila and the capital was moved from San Antonio de Béxar to Saltillo. Armed citizens gathered in protest. In September 1835, they petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the 1824 Constitution, which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners. His answer was to send his crack troops, commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cós, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans. October 1835 found San Antonio de Béxar under military rule, with 1,200 Mexican troops under General Cós’ command. When Cós ordered the small community of Gonzales, about 50 miles east of San Antonio, to return a cannon loaned to the town for defense against Indian attack-rightfully fearing that the citizens might use the cannon against his own troops-the Gonzales residents refused. Come and take it! they taunted, setting off a charge of old chains and scrap iron, shot from the mouth of the tiny cannon mounted on ox-cart wheels. Although the only casualty was one Mexican soldier, Gonzales became enshrined in history as the Lexington of Texas. The Texas Revolution was on. On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cós’ troops in San Antonio de Béxar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Béxar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cós finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande. To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy. The siege of Béxar and Cós’ surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners. Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him. Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cós had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Béxar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower-by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault. Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World….I shall never surrender or retreat….Victory or Death! is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of no quarter. Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett’s fiddle and John McGregor’s bagpipes. In fact, Davy’s fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy’s lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis’ pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190. At 4 o’clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo’s walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin’s Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna’s first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis’ artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself. Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna’s loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as a small affair, but one of his officers commented, Another such victory will ruin us. As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire-except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cós’ presidio guards. Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo’s many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died. One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the grand canyon of Texas, and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it’s logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, By God, I wasn’t ready to die. It is Rose’s tale of the line in the dust that has become legend. - See more at: www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo#sthash.2BdRFiDA.dpuf
ponyboy314 Actually Santa Anna held up for thirteen days waiting for the rest of his troops who were bringing up the larger siege cannons they needed to breach the walls. He never expected Houston's army to arrive. There were actually three attacks. The first two were poorly thought out and executed. The Mexican army reformed and attacked again after each attack was repelled. It was the third attack that finally breached the walls. The entire battle lasted about two hours. The Mexican loses were around 600 which conforms with the normal casualty rate for attacking a fortified position in those days. About 3 to 1 loss rate for the attackers was normal. You know just enough about history to be dangerous to yourself. And your bias makes it even more perilous.
ponyboy314 His name was Louis Rose. He had been a soldier in Napolean's army. Moses was the name of Travis' slave and is the one who pointed out his body.
This was made before the discovery of the Mexican Officer's account. Therefore the final days attack followed normal military tactics. Most battle of the time took place in the afternoon.
At the time, the area which would later become Texas was a part of Mexico. So the Mexicans were fighting to maintain the sovereignty of their country. Texas would later fight against the United States, becoming part of the Confederacy, against the advice of their great hero and statesman, Sam Houston.
Before he died Houston informed his slaves about the Emancipation Proclamation. One of them, Joshua Houston, was later elected to the Texas legislature.
Grew up with this movie all through childhood. The shot at 7:37 freaked me out; he's just sitting there dying with this eerie look on his face. And Bowie's rough and violent death scene (specifically at 11:43) was always something that would screw with my imagination, since you know what is happening to him but can never actually see it. Overall, a very effective final battle, and a really interesting movie to boot.
Always the people in the fort get defeated. Finally there is a man in a room inside the fort with 2 guns. He shoots two enemies and finally gets killed.
Yesterday was Remember the Alamo day. As a Texan this our revolutionary war. At scene 5:27 music tone shows that the defensive is starting to be overwhelmed
The better evidence (de la Pena's journal)wasn't found until 20 years after Wayne wrapped!Until the, even the Disney version could claim to be close to historically accurate!
You have to understand both this film and the John Wayne film are the worst movies made of the Alamo. Both Films, ESPECIALLY Wayne's film is totally fiction except that all the Texans died. That is the only thing they both get right and the set. But The most accurate Film is 2003 John Lee Hancock's film of the Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid and Jason Patric. The only problem I had with that one was the fort wasn't exactly right. but as far as historical accuracy in its story, it is the best. It also covers the Battle of San Jacinto. In Wayne's film, they mention Fannin being murdered and his men massacred. That did happen but not until AFTER the Alamo fell. If you want validation about the 2003 version being the best? I visited the Alamo in 2011 and one of the guards there said that the 2003 film was the most accurate. Watch the 2003 version and the Real West documentary hosted by KEnny Rogers. then you will understand 13 Days to Glory and WAyne's film suck so bad. Here's another thing- in this film, they used alot of shots from Wayne's film AND Travis did not get killed ona well in front of the chapel at the end of the fight. He died Very early on on the North wall by a shot to the head.
Anybody also notice that wasn't midnight and the Alamo was not surrounded? In history, the frontal assault failed and they had to surround the Alamo at night and then took it. No historical accuracy at all!!!
A made for TV movie that filmed the final battle during the day so you can see the actors. Movie was based on Lon Tinkle's book and even he said some things were exagerated. The movie at least captured the spirit of the defenders better than the 2004 version. 2004 version used source material from the de La Pena diary, which even to this day is considered controversial amongst Alamo scholars.
Because it would have been told from the Mexican point of view. To them those people came and took their land away from them. Much like we did with the Native Americans.
Cathie Soli Most people don't realize that It was only "their" land for 14 years (I don't see that as some great historical claim to that land) and btw they invited the Americans to come there to build up the empty land for them, and then Mexico had a regime change and the totalitarian dictator took over and waged a race war on them and their allies. He even boasted that he would read the American's terms for surrender while sitting in the white house as a conqueror. This is why I don't get why Mexicans act as if they have some historical grievance and claim to the South West.
David P Cummings, Robert Cunningham, and, Elijah Baker, were three of the defenders of the Alamo whose names are on the monument. I am, Cummings, Cunningham, and, Baker, and I was born in the Alamo City.
I wonder if texans celeberate the 13 days of battle glory of The real Almo from any part of Texas as a holiday just my though I like fess parker and john wayne as davey crockett.
Dramatic, but more true to Hollywood than history. The final assault did not take place in full daylight (better for filming) but at 5:00 A.M. The cavalry was not involved but held in reserve on the east side of the fort to intercept anyone trying to escape (and several did, but were cut down), the infantry assaults directed at the north, south and west walls And the Mexican assault came close to failing, the troops falling back three times under the withering fire from the fort, until they were reinforced by the reserves. Still, a nice costume spectacle, but a more accurate representation was the latest one starring Dennis McQuaid, Billy Bob Thornton and Jason Patric. It had its own glitches, like Travis manhandling a ten-inch ball fresh out of a mortar barrel (don't try this at home without welding mitts), and Crockett performing "Listen to the Mockingbird" on the fiddle, which wasn't composed until 1854, eighteen years after the battle.
Definitely the people long before us were braver and with stronger principles like honor and patriotism. They didn't clinch to shitty pathetic shameful lives like we do.
The film DID have some things going for it... it had the best portrayal of Santa Anna ever brought to film, played by Raul Julia. It also made mention of Crockett's role in the Creek War, and Bowie's dealings with Jean Lafitte. The film did show a 4:00AM attack sequence, but the trouble was budget.. they didn't have the money to film a full scale battle scene, and so had to use footage from The Last Command, which showed the attack after dawn.
Alex Baldwin Was travis, And as far as the fight scene it's not totally inaccurate probably par for the course as to what happened, but no general Santa antagonist had no British advisors.
Cavalry point your spears at the fort and charge. Keep galloping , when you reach the walls keep pocking in till you create a breach. If you are alive till then you can proceed inside.
Wow, me search for alamo movie and ended hire, nice old movie. And salute to texas people fought fight in this defense war, they're so brave against so many enemy eventually knows they're outnumbered again enemies. Hope their souls rest in peace all side. From japan. Sorry if my English not so good
I think the 2004 Alamo movie was the most underrated version, because it was working the most closely with historical sources.
Texas was born this day. This was our shot heard around the world. 30 million strong now. We are a big part of the world economy
Sooo tough. Funny though. Y’all were just a bunch of illegals immigrants at the time… no look at you. Denying the same to others. Reap what you sow
Texas no era.de uds.
Mexico les dio la mano y uds agarraron asta la pata .
Pero todo imperio o reynado llega a su fin.
Lo gue es lo mismo
España tardo 600 años en expulsar a los moros
I remember watching this as a kid growing up and playing along with toy soldiers from The Alamo soldier and/or battle toy set that had soldiers, cannons, horses, and named soldiers. As well as using cotton balls as smoke on the ends of the guns and cannons and stuff in a makeshift as well as using sticks to make scale sized fences for the soldiers to hide behind in my Alamo battle recreation. God I miss those days, I really enjoyed those toy soldier sets. I wish I still had them to play with at times =D.
The Alamo flag is currently housed in the Chaputepek museum in Mexico City D.F., Mexico.
I once saw it back in 1968 when I visited Mexico.
The flag you speak if is the New Orleans Grey's flag.
Every year here they do a battle reenactment of the Alamo for Texas Independence day festivities. The chief gunner was Gregorio Esparza. There was a contingent of Tejanos native born Texans of Mexican descent. Last message rider out to Houston was Juan Seguin son of the mayor of San Antonio. After San Jacinto he fulfilled his promise to his men at the Alamo and buried them which the Mexicans hadnt done.
According to most, santa Anna desecrated their bodies and burned them
"the Alamo:13 Days to Glory." (1987,Historical Drama/Western).
Cast:
James Arness:
Alec Baldwin:
Brian Keith:
Raul Julia:
David Ogden Stiers:
Lorne Greene:
Kathleen York:
Jim Metzler:
Jon Lindstrom:
Tom Schanley:
Gene Evans:
Isela Vega:
Laura Harring:
Ethan Wayne:
Fernando Allende:
Hinton Battle:
David Sheiner:
Tom Everett:
Buck Taylor:
Grainger Hines:
Phil Casados:
Tony Becker:
Stan Ivar:
Noble Willingham
John Furlong:
Nicky Blair:
Jay Baker:
Dale Swann:
Jan Triska:
Gary Kasper:
Loyda Ramos:
And these were the actual defenders the actors played
I thought I saw Brian Keith in there!
This battle scene has some of it repeating over and over..
Davy Crockett, William Travis, Jim Bowie, & the rest of 185 or more men, what I call a "Real Heroes!!!!" They all knew they going to die, but they fought right to the 13th day. Santa Anna's case, he was a cruel & extremely evil Dictator, was a Monster!!!!! Thank God, few months later, @ the "Battle of San Jacinto," Sam Houston, & all of his Army, capture Santa Anna, & Texas became free!!!!! Love what, Sam Houston, told his men, Shouting, this words, "Remember the Alamo, remember Goliad!!!!"
The Mexican soldiers are actually the good guys in the movie, since they defended the territorial integrity of Mexico, and the illegal immigrants who lived in the Mexican province of Texas, the bad guys, since they wanted to balkanize Texas in Mexico.
Because they do not tell the truth, that the US-American Pirates stole Texas from Mexico to continue maintaining the labor system based on slavery, when it had been abolished in Mexico since 1810.
Santa Anna is not really the villain of the movie.
VIVA LA TEXAS MEXICANA
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Don't you get tired of repeating yourself? Also, does it really matter now since it is in the past and apart of history?
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I like to remember and tell the true story, not the one invented by Uncle Sam, who invented a truly impressive story to justify an illegitimate robbery of Mexico
I respectfully, disagree with you. Santa Ana, was not a "Hero," he wss a "Evil Dictator!!!" Texas deserves, to be free, from a Dictator, like Santa Ana. About Sam Houston, he & his men, was another, "Heroes, in my Book!!!" Thank God, for the "Battle of San Jacinto!!!!" If it was not for them, Texas would NOT be FREE, from Santa Ana!!!
If I was inside, of the "Alamo," & I knew I was going to "Die," I rather "Die as a Hero," to fight for "Texas' Independence," over a "Disgusting Dictator, Santa Ana." To give Sam Houston, "To organize an army!!!"
And the guy's,at 4.54,grandson played a pivotal role at Rorkes Drift many years later!
Never saw this. Pretty good battle depiction, realistic close combat and death scenes better then most.
It was pretty cool to see Travis fighting to the death near the end of the battle, but in reality, he actually died pretty early in the battle. He was on top of the north wall, firing his shotgun down at the Mexican soldiers huddled under the wall, and then a stray Mexican bullet struck him in the head.
That stray bullet did not strike him in the head! His bullet from his own gun struck him in the head! The coward committed suicide!
@@rogercortez2509 We don't Know if he Killed Himself or not But he most Likely Didnt According to one persons chat Travis was hit by a cannon ball While manning a cannon and it Killed Him.
Oh wow I didnt realize you were there! That's super cool maybe you could to the ladies and gentlemen a second by second happening of events since you seem to know for a fact that Travis killed himself
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I am English and even I know that the defenders of the Alamo were properly brave and that they knew exactly what was going to happen to them but held out anyway
Brave? Those pigs were slaveholders
@@carlosbarboza6826 shut up barboza, In fact WHY DO U EVEN KEEP COMING HERE? STOP WATCHING ALAMO VIDEOS IF UR GONNA Talk trash about it jeez don't u have something better to do? I mean my god how many times u gonna keep coming here
@@Maybedakidnamedaidan what are you talking about you weren't even there David Crockett and Travis ran like jackrabbits and were caught and executed along with a few others they stole this land from Mexico how would you like it if someone comes over by force and take half of the United States and call themselves hero's
@@crissoto3759 How did Mexico get the land?
Fuck off. Mexico is the best than the USA
Texas is a slave owner.
This was the one I was looking for. Thank you for uploading it.
Been to the San Jac monument a few times for my Bday as a kid. Always cool to see the museum and then go jump on the USS Texas and sink a lot of tonnage on the Houston Ship channel
In 4th Grade Texas History, this is the movie we saw on the Alamo. In 7th grade Texas History, we saw the 2004 Alamo in Theaters.
+jermster17 I may be wrong but this film posted here was using pieces of the Last Command with Sterling Hayden. Must have been a cheap movie
+Frank Fraser it does use clips from other Alamo movies.
+jermster17 Now that is a fast answer! One of my regrets in life was not stopping by the Alamo. I was driving through there at 3 am helping my son drive to Ft. Benning. 3rd ID..... we could have diven the short distance to see it from the freeway. But didnt. Wish I had.
Have read a lot on the battle. Great story. Movies never get it right but this one tried at least. Thanks for posting Midnight in Az here!!! LOL
+Frank Fraser It has been awhile since I have visited the Alamo. It is certainly something every Texan should visit in his or her lifetime.
+jermster17 All Americans should visit! Custer Battlefield too. (Little Big Horn...excuse me!!!)
If the writers of Game of Thrones had made this movie, they would have put half the defenders outside the walls with the cannons in front.
Went straight for jugular. S7 cant escape our wrath no matter how old the movie is HAHA. I like it.
... and they would've set the battle to late night, in darkness. (Which would've been correct actually)
With exposed slongs
The Alamo only had 1 Cannon……….
The battle began at Dawn………It was not in darkness………
I love this movie. Watches it for the first time in 7tjh grade Texas History and have the VhS of it but haven't gotten a DVD so far :( love love love this movie
I saw this movie in 7th grade Texas history too
What movie is this?
Unfortunately, the assault took place at around 4:00 am on March 6th. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns approached without bugles or bands, in total silence with fixed bayonets and unloaded muskets. They were over the North wall before any of the defenders knew what was happening. Most of the Mexican casualties likely came from 'friendly' fire as the rearward columns loaded their muskets before they entered the fort.
Not quite.
5-6 AM. That's a big difference weather-wise from 4 AM. Not noon-like as the movie shows but also not pitch black either.
Defenders beat back 2 waves.
30 minutes of gunshots followed by 30 minutes of hand-to-hand fighting after the walls were breached.
Not the 10 minutes that Hollywood shows in this scene.
Well if you wanta' get technical . .
Also, evidence has been released that Crockett and few others actually did escape the Alamo. They sneaked out during the fighting, unfortunately for them Gen. Santa Ana placed units around the Alamo for that sole reason, when Crockett was captured, Gen. Santa Ana gave specific details to execute all of them for being cowards....
There's a lot of BS about the Alamo.
All that really matters is that it "encouraged" the Mexican War.
We got California out of that war . .
So maybe we lost after all.
@@williamphillips6049 well in San Jacinto Santa Anna’s troops were ambushed while resting and they lost and Santa Anna was captured he was sent to Washington then exiled back to Mexico to basically live an embarrassing and depressing life
The bravery and sacrifice of the men at the Alamo gave Sam Houston crucial time to raise and prepare an Army in East Texas that would route Santa Ana at San Jacinto about a month later. It just goes to show that a few dedicated men devoted to a cause larger than themselves can change the world.
So colonizing is a greater cause
@@thisislaflaretv5250 why not dick head
@@thisislaflaretv5250 didnt stop the rest of the world, why should we be judged any diffrent?
@@onlythewise1 I'm glad they have a place for individuals like you to express how uncivilized you with out getting your mouth kicked opened. Advice if you won't say it to a person's face. Trust me you wouldn't say it to my face without me demonstrating. Just disagree and keep it moving
@@LeftBlankIntentionally Because European/Caucasian influence and dominance has put the Earth on a course of destruction
If only John Wayne had been there...
... the ending would have been the same!
He died in his version too though.
Ethan wayne was there
Read the letter Travis sent from the Alamo. The man had balls as big as Texas. They were heroes and that’s why they’re still revered to this day.
Balls as big as Texas? The fucker was a coward! He took the coward's way out. He committed suicide!
Roger Cortez
Ha! 😂 The one and only historical source for that fairy tale is from an ex slave who first said he was shot in the head defending the North wall, and then much later changed his story because he hated (quite naturally) being enslaved. Dozens of accounts of Travis courage. Even from Mexicans. (who also showed great courage) Your ignorance of history is okay, but you should read a little before you make foolish comments.
@@rogercortez2509 I’d read an actual history book before I said something else so stupid. I teach Texas History at the community college level. Travis nor any alamo defender killed themselves. Travis fought and died on the battlements.
@@rogercortez2509 Only way I could see you believing that is if youre a hardcore racist or unable to use google.
@@Monterey96 Okey Dokey.....one of the two eh...or both. But thanks for your opinion.
Actually reading eyewitness Mexican veteran accounts of the battle Crockett was stowed away in a well fortified room encroaching numerous casualties on the Mexican and they finally killed him when they charged the room with many Mexicans but not without him leaving about 15 dead in the melee.
a good friend of mine from england went to visit the alamo many years back after hearing so much about it regarding them that fell in the famous battle a plaque outside read scots, irish, english, norwegians , french, ect, ect, ect ? all foreigners after all the hype he was not impressed !
I am Polish my uncles fought in WW II. In America we retain our ethnic heritage even if we are born citizens of the U S. They may have come from all those countries but except for the Tennessee people they were all citizens of Mexico fighting for the Mexican Constitution of 1824. As were states all over Mexico in revolt over Santa Ana abrocating it. Mexico had been in revolt for 2 years over that. And he treated the Mexican people no better.
Que viva Mexico
Y muerte a los tejanos
What gets me, is the big guy with tomahawk. That guy is all messed up but still trying to muster the strength to get back in the fight. Dies defending his post.
Well historically inaccurate but not a bad battle scene especially for a TV movie from the 80s
Most of the large number Mexican battle shots were from John Wayne's Alamo. You can see the obvious difference in the film grain. Some shots are from other Alamo films and then colorized. Brian Keith looked nothing like Crockett. And Travis was killed very early on the North Wall. Not near the end fighting on a well near the chapel.
From what I've seen many of he Mexican battle scenes are from the 1955 movie "The Last Command" starring Sterling Hayden as Jim Bowie.
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Into music in a big way and this was composed by Peter Bernstein son of the great Elmer you can tell by the score that he had combined with his father on this movie
In a war, time is an important factor. Though the Alamo fell in the end, the defenders had given the Texan army a much needed two weeks.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas.
Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810.
Mexico land of racial equality.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 Every nation has the right to declare independance even if the country its from dosent like it.
LocomotiveSteam he’s wrong anyways
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Well actually Mexico invited the Americans to settle Texas for them, which they did. Then Santa Anna abolished the Mexican constitution of 1824 and declared himself dictator. First Santa Anna killed off many Mexican patriots who didn't want to live under a dictator. After that he made the mistake of also attacking the people of Texas who didn't want a dictator either and so declared independence. Even though he outnumber the Texans, he was soundly defeated and was lucky that they spared his life. Which is more than he did for the heroes of the Alamo.
@@matthewstavrowsky9998 Although the Mexican government system changed, Texas did not have the right to separate, since it was a Mexican province, its sovereignty depended on the entire Mexican state.
The president had the right to abolish the autonomy of the Mexican territories, as well as to grant autonomy, since it was his power as head of state.
Texas was balkanized by immigrants from the United States, that's the truth.
Fun fact: while this movie had James Arness, and a number of Gunsmoke regulars, Ken Curtis (Festus) starred in the 1960 version!
If we are not careful. History will soon be repeating itself.
maybe but I think Covid might slow it down. Can you imagine a battle where they make use of social distancing? Everyone has to run six feet apart from each other and wear masks. And Disinfect their bullets before use.
Such a powerful opening scene. The Texans knew they were doomed but stood as proud Americans and fought to the end
Estás equivocado, los texanos eran unos cobardes que merecían morir.
When did I ask Mexican
As insurgents they got what they deserved.
Love this movie, one of the best if not best alamo films and was a tv version. I used to watch this over and over. Great flick, great scenes. RtA!
It's one of the worst films. Only accurate things was the set and that all the defenders died.
@@Mr508films To each their own I suppose but I totally disagree. I am one to appreciate accuracy, but there are other factors that can make it a great flick. No other Alamo documented on film brings you together with the defenders such, makes you feel their situation, and puts across their heroism nearly as good as 13 days. Most of the actors do a great job making you truly want to root for them even knowing the end. Wayne's Alamo didn't do this, and the modern travesty certainly didn't. That's almost more important since it instills the idea of why the Alamo is important in the first place, thereby preserving the real history through Hollywood on screen heart strings even with story telling intertwined throughout. In other words, this one makes you actually want to 'Remember the Alamo'! Frankly the only thing that every bothered me was the ages of Crocket and Bowie as clearly they felt Arness and Keith star power was worth seeing actors way too old for the parts. But clearly you can see I'm probably a bit biased with nostalgia and pride, and given that few even know about this film most must agree more with you.
@@lonewulf44 I disagree with you on most of your defense of this travesty of a film. To call the 2004 version. a travesty is wrong. At least they had their final battle take place when it happened in the Early morning before dawn. They had more accurate and age appropriate actors for the roles of Crockett and Bowie. And they didn't dress Crockett in buckskins. The only issues I had were with the music and the layout of the fort where the Long barracks joined the chapel. But I look at Wayne's Alamo and 13 Days as two of the worst Alamo films. 13 Days being the worst because it totally ignored how the flow of the battle went. The Mexicans breached the North wall and the flooded the compound. Travis was the first of the trinity to die. Bowie was not even 50% effective, had no strength to stand. In fact the movies could not really depict how they killed him. It would be too graphic. They raised him up on bayonets.
And I believe that Crockett was executed after the battle based on the journal of Mexican General De la Pena. The 2004 version got most of these details correct. 13 Days didn't even try.I've talked to employees at the Alamo and most of them feel that the 2004 version. is the most accurate version. The Price of Freedom film is better than 13 days.
@@Mr508films no, the actors actually played the parts of the real defenders.
@@barbarasherman6007 They may have portrayed actual people, that doesn't change the fact that film lacked a ton of historical accuracy and liberally stole film from other previous Alamo films.. First, there was no English General in Santa Anna's Staff, the final battle took place at about 4-5 am when it was still dark. Travis was one of the very first to die on the North wall. Not at the well near the South Gate. And Bowie was not in in the church when he died, nor was he able to stand up. He was probably almost dead before thew battle began. Do some research and learn the real story. Oh, in the 2004 version , the actors also portrayed the real defenders and did so more accurately.
I thought so about seeing the same person being physically killed a number of ways . I heard mine say " I came alive again to quick " . In the video it shows that a few of us recovered and fought again a number of times ...
I didn't know James Arness and Brian Keith fought at the Alamo. Glad to see they had pretty good movies careers 100+ years later.
Something else i'd like to point out is how in this, Crockets men get over whelmed really fast, when it was actually wall under Travis' command that was taken over first. Also it was a night time surprise attack. From all sides! and they always depict Davy Crocket as wearing dear skins with a hunting rifle. Those were just his hunting clothes. He never actually were them in public.
nothing more powerful in this version. he stands on a gate for 10 mins killing Mexicans like nothing and then dies- that is like kids power fantasy nothing adults should like.
They say Travis was one of the first to die in the last stand.
Actually the final attack on the alamo happened at 5am while the “defenders” were asleep. Santa Anna wanted to kill them in their sleep but a soldier started chanting which woke up the “defenders”
This movie was just too Hollywood.
The fallen defenders lie there as if they're just asleep. I know - I know, but it gives me the feeling that heroes can not truly die, for they live on in tales.
That’s how movies portrayed death on screen back then. Shot or stabbed once and immediately die, with no blood.
I wish they showed this more realistic, sweaty, dirty and dangerous. Most defenders had multiple wounds that they fought through before they were overwhelmed. Some were stabbed 20x with the bayonet.
they re not heroes!
The History books say they were all laid low, but the truth of it is it just ain't so . They wiil live and their legends grow so long as we remember the Alamo
They were no heroes they were pirates and slave holding pigs
Many of the early battle scenes are from the 1955 movie "The Last Command" of Republic pictures.
+John Hanusin , I suppose that they were working on a low budget for this film, and, it was cheaper to use stock footage.
+John Hanusin also from john waynes 1960 tribute
You have to remember that it was a TV film show shown during prime time
Yes true
the guy dying att 5:13 is ethan wayne john wayne's youngest son.
OJ Colegrove...Yes...I was an extra (Mexican soldier).and that is John Wayne's son...They were all introduced to us...The movie was filmed at Happy Shahans in Bracketville, Texas...
@@romeo34889 I believe his son was in his father directed version of the Alamo.
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Sorry to disappoint all of you Alamo fans, but Travis(Alec Baldwin) was one of the first to fall, and on the North Wall, instead of one of the last to fall fighting like Zorro in the courtyard.
I dont think anyone is disappointed. Someone whose done any research about the alamo at all knows that already. More than likely if someone is watching an alamo movie, theyre interested enough to look up the facts as well.
1:58 That nexican charge looks epic with that soundtrack
The Mexicans would not have attacked like that.
William B Travis was killed 15 minutes before the battle started, Bowie was in sick bed. I visited san Antonio Texas from Australia in 2014, worth a visit after you studying battle and history. seen all the movies, and studied the real battle. Brave people.
Actually he died under 10 minutes of the final attack.
My great X3 uncle was the Sergeant Major of the Alamo.
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The real history is the 13th day assault happened in the way hours before sunrise, when most were still asleep.
That is correct Derek! The conditions at the mission were atrocious! Additionally food was scarce, there was dissention among the different factions, munnitions were of poor quality, untrained men who couldn't aim a cannon, an immature boy, Travis, leading a group of grown misfits who were conned into the Alamo with a promise of acreage and money. As you know they didn't collect. Additionally psuedo-historians say it was a 13 day siege. Not so! The 13 days of the event was, like a great tactician he was, Santa Ana sent probes toward the mission to find all the weak defensive positions. And yes, some Mexicans were killed in their probing. The defensive position they showed in the wee hours of the morning on that day was that they were asleep in their quarters. The 13 day probing of the mission was successful and on March 6th with all the info garnered from the probes Santa Ana launched his attack and wiped out a bunch of crybabies and their cowardly boy who chose to take the coward's way out...flat out SUICIDE! Yup! A real hero that Travis guy!
....and hows'bout that Davy Crockett fella. He and the boy, Tavis! The "COWARDLY DUO"! One committed suicide and 'ol Davy tucked his tail between his legs and ran off like the skunk he was. These are the phonies that white folk there about worship! And still do so today!
@@rogercortez2509 jesus fucking christ. You still at it boomer?
@@thespecter5164 Yup, still at it! Still at it until the history of the Alamo is corrected!
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It's a tv movie!! what do you expect people!!
Thanks for posting this.
Texans are badass fighters
8:18 savage moment he literally kicks the gun, such footwork this dudes a legend 😎😎😎
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO
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Rest in peace 185
They were just pigs
It seems that every country/culture has their own famous last stand. In Greece, it's Thermopylae. In America it's either The Alamo, or Little Bighorn.
Texas belonged to Texas. not the us at that time so it's the Indian- army battle
+Smitty Boy Good point. But then again, since most of the Alamo defenders were of American decent (some very famous), you could make the argument of it being an American Last Stand.
so whats your point.
*Travis lasted wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too long on this version*
Talk about a low budget movie, just love all those wobbly rubber bayonets lol
the cavalry would have been behind the alamo to kill anyone running away.
Bob ap Bob There's a story that about 30 tried to make a run for it but were caught&killed by Calvary troops
@@Chief2Moon Calvary is a different thing, in the bible...
1 year later I hate to inform all of you Alamo buffs but the Mexican Cavalry was not used in the actual final assault but instead was positioned on the perimeters to keep reinforcements from coming in and the defenders from escaping the Mission.
Just saw your other comment and then this one, bruh everyone knows that shit already why do you think you’re special lmao
The clip is great for dramatic effect, with a few mistakes. Travis was actually one of the first to die dew to a shot to the head. The battle started in the early morning hours, most likely just after sunrise. It is believed by most that Bowie was probably unconscious when he was killed.
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Texas Rising is horrible history.
You should see Alamo : Price of Freedom (1988). Only 48 minutes, but one hell of a final battle scene!!
The most recent movie with Jason Patric and Billy Bob Thornton is probably the most historically accurate. At least they have it at night. Travis died early in the attack. Nobody knows exactly how Crockett died. The attack at San Jacinto in the last movie was also well done. Dennis Quaid always looked like he was constipated.
@Jack Hamilton nobody knows exactly what was said, or even who was a survivor of the attack, though some sources say that Crockett was among those who did. The screamer thing was probably artistic license, but it did work for me.
@Bewilderbeast I do believe that the attack was scheduled to take place at night, it has always been staged in daylight for filming purposes. It makes more sense to attack at night strategically. The element of surprise is a great advantage.
@@tomvernon2123 Couriers carried out messages, and letters, quite often before the Alamo was lost which is why the 2004 movie version was more accurate.
I know how Coward Crockett died! The f**ker was executed! Timidthy Travis took the craven's way out. The f**ker committed suicide.
Baldwin better be careful with that!!!!!!
My favorite Alamo film was the one with Billy Bob Thornton,Dennis Quaid,Jason Patrick,etc.
Dallas DautermanD I went to school with and our family's were friends with John Lee Handcock- wrote produced, directed, and did the time period costumes for that movie.
He also has credits with The Rookie, The Blind Side, The Highwaymen and others.
Matthew Montegut Thank you for the info. His was fine filmwork in my opinion!
Outstanding!
Someone please upload the 2004 remake part with sam houston defeating santa, in 18 min.
Travis was one of the first defenders to die being shot in the head at the North Wall before any Mexican troops had entered the compound.. Crockett was one of the last to die being brutally killed by officers loyal to Santa Anna after he and a small group were captured defending the Chapel. Also, no Mexican cavalry entered the compound, they ruthlessly pursued and lanced the few defenders who tried to escape.
Great to know. Thanks for that little tidbit.
Crockery’s manner of death is not certain. Susannah Dickinson herself said she saw his body surrounded by corpses and hacked to bits, some say he was captured and executed, others say he was part of a group that attempted to escape and was run down by cavalry.
180 adventurers and cowboys held back the Mexican Army for 13 days.... what a catastrophic defeat for the invaders.
ponyboy314 again you are wrong ...Under Iturbide, American colonists had been allowed to settle in Texas. About the only condition to owning land was that all immigrant landowners had to be Catholic, an easy enough problem to overcome for non-Catholics. William Travis, for instance, became Catholic to purchase land, but remained a staunch Methodist until the day he died at the Alamo. Unfortunately, the fledgling Republic of Mexico was born bankrupt and ill-prepared for self-government. In fact, during its first 15 years of independence, it had 13 presidents. All of them struggled for power, shifting between the liberal-leaning Federalists and the dictatorial Centralists. The first president was a Federalist, General Guadalupe Victoria, a hero of the revolution who had changed his name from Miguel Felix Hernandez to honor Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas, for his victory. It was he who established the liberal Constitution of 1824 that so infuriated Santa Anna and that would lead to the Battle of the Alamo 12 years later. It was also during this tumultuous struggle for control of Mexico’s presidency that the northern territory of Texas was mostly neglected. When Mexico redefined its territories in 1824, Texas was the only separate territory to lose its independence. It was joined to Coahuila and the capital was moved from San Antonio de Béxar to Saltillo. Armed citizens gathered in protest. In September 1835, they petitioned for statehood separate from Coahuila. They wrote out their needs and their complaints in The Declaration of Causes. This document was designed to convince the Federalists that the Texans desired only to preserve the 1824 Constitution, which guaranteed the rights of everyone living on Mexican soil. But by this time, Santa Anna was in power, having seized control in 1833, and he advocated the removal of all foreigners. His answer was to send his crack troops, commanded by his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cós, to San Antonio to disarm the Texans. October 1835 found San Antonio de Béxar under military rule, with 1,200 Mexican troops under General Cós’ command. When Cós ordered the small community of Gonzales, about 50 miles east of San Antonio, to return a cannon loaned to the town for defense against Indian attack-rightfully fearing that the citizens might use the cannon against his own troops-the Gonzales residents refused. Come and take it! they taunted, setting off a charge of old chains and scrap iron, shot from the mouth of the tiny cannon mounted on ox-cart wheels. Although the only casualty was one Mexican soldier, Gonzales became enshrined in history as the Lexington of Texas. The Texas Revolution was on. On December 5, 200 Texan volunteers commanded by Ben Milam attacked Cós’ troops in San Antonio de Béxar, which was about 400 yards from the Alamo compound. The fighting in Béxar raged with a house-to-house assault unlike anything the Mexican army had ever before experienced. Cós finally flew the white flag of surrender from the Alamo on December 9. More than 200 of his men lay dead, and as many more were wounded. He signed papers of capitulation, giving the Texans all public property, money, arms and ammunition in San Antonio, and by Christmas Day, the Mexican army was back across the Rio Grande. To the Texans, who lost about 20 men, including Ben Milam, the victory seemed cheap and easy. The siege of Béxar and Cós’ surrender brought immediate retaliation from Santa Anna. He whipped together a force of 8,000 men, many of them foreign adventurers from Europe and America. One of his deadliest snipers was an Illinois man named Johnson! Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, marched at the head of the massive army; he was determined to stamp out all opposition and teach the Texans a lesson. The word went out to his generals: In this war, you understand, there are no prisoners. Although it was midwinter, Santa Anna pushed his army mercilessly toward Texas. The frigid, wind-battered deserts of northern Mexico took their toll. Men and animals died by the hundreds and were left on the trail, and the brigades strung out for uncounted miles. When the big siege guns bogged down in one of the many quagmires, Santa Anna pushed on without them. Nothing would stop him. Meanwhile, after the defeated Mexican force under General Cós had left San Antonio, Colonel James C. Neill had assumed command of the Alamo garrison, which consisted of about 80 poorly equipped men in several small companies, including the volunteers. The rest of the soldiers had returned home to their families and farm chores. In this command were an artillery company under Captain William R. Carey known as the Invincibles, two small infantry companies known as the New Orleans Greys under Captain William Blazeby, and the Béxar Guards under Captain Robert White. On January 17, 1836, Sam Houston, the commander of the revolutionary troops, sent Colonel Jim Bowie and 25 men to San Antonio with orders to destroy the Alamo fortifications and retire eastward with the artillery. But Bowie and Neill agreed that it would be impossible to remove the 24 captured cannons without oxen, mules or horses. And they deemed it foolhardy to abandon that much firepower-by far the most concentrated at any location during the Texas Revolution. Bowie also had a keen eye for logistics, terrain, and avenues of assault. Knowing that General Houston needed time to raise a sizable army to repel Santa Anna, Bowie set about reinforcing the Alamo after Neill was forced to leave because of sickness in his family. Colonel William Travis arrived in San Antonio on February 2 with a small cavalry company, bringing the total number of Alamo defenders to about 130. Although spies told him that Santa Anna had crossed the Rio Grande, Travis did not expect the dictator before early spring. He sent letter after letter, pleading for supplies and more men. He and Bowie also competed for command of the garrison before it was decided that Bowie would command the volunteers and Travis the regular army. On February 9, David Crockett and the 14 other Tennessee Mounted Volunteers (only three were actually from Tennessee) rode into San Antonio. Alarmed by the Mexican army on the outskirts of town, Travis vigorously renewed his pleas for help. His February 24 letter, To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World….I shall never surrender or retreat….Victory or Death! is considered one of the most heart-wrenching pleas ever written. Travis sent the message out with Captain Albert Martin. The day before, February 23, Santa Anna had reclaimed San Antonio. To the triumphant music of a military band, he took possession of the town, set up headquarters on the main plaza, and began the siege. He had his standard-bearers climb to the top of the bell tower of San Fernando Church and unfurl the scarlet flag of no quarter. Inside the Alamo, Travis and the Texans fired their message to Santa Anna with a blast from their 18-pounder. They had their music, too, with Davy Crockett’s fiddle and John McGregor’s bagpipes. In fact, Davy’s fiddle-playing and outlandish storytelling kept up the spirits of the besieged defenders. Santa Anna ordered his men to pound the fortifications with cannon and rifle fire for 12 days and nights. His idea was to wear out the defenders inside, giving them no chance for rest or sleep. He reasoned that a weary army would be an easy one to defeat. But the noise worked on his own army, too. Unable to hear clearly through the din, they allowed courier after courier to escape from the Alamo. On March 2, racing through the enemy’s lines, the last group to reinforce the Alamo arrived. These men were the relief force from Gonzales, the only town to answer Travis’ pleas to send help. The total number of Alamo defenders now stood at between 180 and 190. At 4 o’clock on the morning of March 6, 1836, Santa Anna advanced his men to within 200 yards of the Alamo’s walls. Just as dawn was breaking, the Mexican bloodcurdling bugle call of the Deguello echoed the meaning of the scarlet flag above San Fernando: no quarter. It was Captain Juan Seguin’s Tejanos, the native-born Mexicans fighting in the Texan army, who interpreted the chilling music for the other defenders. Santa Anna’s first charge was repulsed, as was the second, by the deadly fire of Travis’ artillery. At the third charge, one Mexican column attacked near a breach in the north wall, another in the area of the chapel, and a third, the Toluca Battalion, commenced to scale the walls. All suffered severely. Out of 800 men in the Toluca Battalion, only 130 were left alive. Fighting was hand to hand with knives, pistols, clubbed rifles, lances, pikes, knees and fists. The dead lay everywhere. Blood spilled in the convent, the barracks, the entrance to the church, and finally in the rubble-strewn church interior itself. Ninety minutes after it began, it was over. All the Texans died. Santa Anna’s loss was 1,544 men. More than 500 Mexicans lay wounded, their groans mingling with the haunting strains of the distant bugle calls. Santa Anna airily dismissed the Alamo conquest as a small affair, but one of his officers commented, Another such victory will ruin us. As many of the Mexican dead as possible were given the rites of the church and buried, but there were so many that there was not sufficient room in the cemetery. Santa Anna ordered all the bodies of the Texans to be contemptuously stacked like cord wood in three heaps, mixed with fuel, wood and dry branches from the neighboring forest, and set on fire-except one. Jose Gregorio Esparza was given a Christian burial because his brother Francisco was a member of General Cós’ presidio guards. Six weeks after the Alamo, while the Mexican wounded still languished in San Antonio, Santa Anna met his Waterloo at San Jacinto. The men who died inside the walls of the Alamo had bought with their lives the time needed for General Sam Houston to weld a force that won Texas its independence. The great sacrifice would not be forgotten by history, nor would the Alamo’s many legends and stories, most of which can never be proved or disproved because all the defenders died. One of the most enduring questions is whether Travis really did draw a line in the earth, the grand canyon of Texas, and ask all to step over who were willing to die for the cause. It is probably based on fact. Travis anticipated a battle to the death. Since he was also one for fairness, it’s logical to believe that he would give the men an opportunity to leave the ill-fated garrison. It is a fact that one man did leave. Louis Rose was from France, and he had already served in one bloody war as a noncommissioned officer in Napoleon Bonaparte’s army. Before the final assault on the Alamo he left, sustaining many leg wounds from cactuses and thorns during his escape that plagued him the remainder of his life. Asked why he chose not to stay with the rest, he replied, By God, I wasn’t ready to die. It is Rose’s tale of the line in the dust that has become legend. - See more at: www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo#sthash.2BdRFiDA.dpuf
ponyboy314 Actually Santa Anna held up for thirteen days waiting for the rest of his troops who were bringing up the larger siege cannons they needed to breach the walls. He never expected Houston's army to arrive. There were actually three attacks. The first two were poorly thought out and executed. The Mexican army reformed and attacked again after each attack was repelled. It was the third attack that finally breached the walls. The entire battle lasted about two hours. The Mexican loses were around 600 which conforms with the normal casualty rate for attacking a fortified position in those days. About 3 to 1 loss rate for the attackers was normal. You know just enough about history to be dangerous to yourself. And your bias makes it even more perilous.
ponyboy314 His name was Louis Rose. He had been a soldier in Napolean's army. Moses was the name of Travis' slave and is the one who pointed out his body.
Its Joe not moses
But a lot of the defenders that left the Alamo formed with Sam Houston ,and they did has a survivor ,the Mexican solider said ,they made him
Thanks for the upload, as a kid I really loved this film.
as a grownup you should really hate this film
This battle historically took place at night
It was early morning!
it began at 6 am. ended 90 mins later
This was made before the discovery of the Mexican Officer's account. Therefore the final days attack followed normal military tactics. Most battle of the time took place in the afternoon.
At the time, the area which would later become Texas was a part of Mexico. So the Mexicans were fighting to maintain the sovereignty of their country. Texas would later fight against the United States, becoming part of the Confederacy, against the advice of their great hero and statesman, Sam Houston.
Before he died Houston informed his slaves about the Emancipation Proclamation. One of them, Joshua Houston, was later elected to the Texas legislature.
Col. Travis was one of the first defenders killed. Bullet to the head, I believe.
Yes he was actually on his forehead with his lave joe a black person was realoding willams b Travis mukset when it was done a meaxcin soldier shot him
At 8:50 did anyone see the Mexican soldier extra help an Alamo defender extra up and then run off together
He is a traitor in a nutshell
Grew up with this movie all through childhood. The shot at 7:37 freaked me out; he's just sitting there dying with this eerie look on his face. And Bowie's rough and violent death scene (specifically at 11:43) was always something that would screw with my imagination, since you know what is happening to him but can never actually see it. Overall, a very effective final battle, and a really interesting movie to boot.
7:37 11:43
Always the people in the fort get defeated. Finally there is a man in a room inside the fort with 2 guns. He shoots two enemies and finally gets killed.
The person in the room who shot 2 people was Jim Bowie He Got about 2 Mexicans with pistol and another 2 With His Famous Bowie Knife.
Yesterday was Remember the Alamo day. As a Texan this our revolutionary war. At scene 5:27 music tone shows that the defensive is starting to be overwhelmed
I love this movie. This is the best Alamo movie ever made. The John Wayne one is great too 😀👍✌️️
Both are works of total fiction and not one bit historically accurate.
The better evidence (de la Pena's journal)wasn't found until 20 years after Wayne wrapped!Until the, even the Disney version could claim to be close to historically accurate!
You have to understand both this film and the John Wayne film are the worst movies made of the Alamo. Both Films, ESPECIALLY Wayne's film is totally fiction except that all the Texans died. That is the only thing they both get right and the set. But The most accurate Film is 2003 John Lee Hancock's film of the Alamo with Billy Bob Thornton, Dennis Quaid and Jason Patric. The only problem I had with that one was the fort wasn't exactly right. but as far as historical accuracy in its story, it is the best. It also covers the Battle of San Jacinto. In Wayne's film, they mention Fannin being murdered and his men massacred. That did happen but not until AFTER the Alamo fell. If you want validation about the 2003 version being the best? I visited the Alamo in 2011 and one of the guards there said that the 2003 film was the most accurate. Watch the 2003 version and the Real West documentary hosted by KEnny Rogers. then you will understand 13 Days to Glory and WAyne's film suck so bad. Here's another thing- in this film, they used alot of shots from Wayne's film AND Travis did not get killed ona well in front of the chapel at the end of the fight. He died Very early on on the North wall by a shot to the head.
Mr508 The Alamo 2004 is probably the best one out there the only seen that's not true is when Davy shot of Santa Anna's gauntlet
That's what makes them great. I don't care about accuracy when the Alamo comes up.
The best Alamo movie to date was the Last Command...1955.
then you must not have seen the 2004 film directed by John Lee Hancock and starring Billy Bob Thorton as DAVID( not DAVY) CROCKETT.
I was assigned to a 20mm AA battery on the South wall and managed to bring down 2 Mexican Bombers and a fighter!
what a guy !!
Remember the alamo.
I've pretty much come to the conclusion there is no accurate historical account of what happened at the Alamo.
Sid, you might want to look at the post I just made. I hope it helps.
The 2004 version I believe is the closest.
183 against 2500
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Parts for the old movie " Jim Bowes Last Command " Go ARMY
Anybody also notice that wasn't midnight and the Alamo was not surrounded? In history, the frontal assault failed and they had to surround the Alamo at night and then took it. No historical accuracy at all!!!
the 2004 Alamo movie was the most accurate.
A made for TV movie that filmed the final battle during the day so you can see the actors. Movie was based on Lon Tinkle's book and even he said some things were exagerated. The movie at least captured the spirit of the defenders better than the 2004 version. 2004 version used source material from the de La Pena diary, which even to this day is considered controversial amongst Alamo scholars.
I agree with you about the 2004 version. We haven't seen a really great version of this story, yet.
+Mike Frak There have been those who have said it would be told differently if told by the Mexicans. I would love to get their take on it.
Cathie Soli How do you think it would be different?
Because it would have been told from the Mexican point of view. To them those people came and took their land away from them. Much like we did with the Native Americans.
Cathie Soli Most people don't realize that It was only "their" land for 14 years (I don't see that as some great historical claim to that land) and btw they invited the Americans to come there to build up the empty land for them, and then Mexico had a regime change and the totalitarian dictator took over and waged a race war on them and their allies. He even boasted that he would read the American's terms for surrender while sitting in the white house as a conqueror. This is why I don't get why Mexicans act as if they have some historical grievance and claim to the South West.
David P Cummings, Robert Cunningham, and, Elijah Baker, were three of the defenders of the Alamo whose names are on the monument. I am, Cummings, Cunningham, and, Baker, and I was born in the Alamo City.
I wonder if texans celeberate the 13 days of battle glory of The real Almo from any part of Texas as a holiday just my though I like fess parker and john wayne as davey crockett.
no they don't. They celebrate cinco de mayo.
Actually Texans celebrate March 2 when they declared Independence just as Americans celebrate July 4.
@@KWY007 Budweiser celebrates cinco de Mayo.
The reality was that Crockett & 5 others were captured then later put up against the wall with the firing squad ordered by Santa ana.
@@josephcavaliere9772 I Highly doubt Davy crockett Surrenderd but maybe he did.
Замечательное зрелище но очень сочувствую погибшим людям Ведь война никогда и не кого не щадила.
Just damn, extremely good action!
Dramatic, but more true to Hollywood than history. The final assault did not take place in full daylight (better for filming) but at 5:00 A.M. The cavalry was not involved but held in reserve on the east side of the fort to intercept anyone trying to escape (and several did, but were cut down), the infantry assaults directed at the north, south and west walls And the Mexican assault came close to failing, the troops falling back three times under the withering fire from the fort, until they were reinforced by the reserves. Still, a nice costume spectacle, but a more accurate representation was the latest one starring Dennis McQuaid, Billy Bob Thornton and Jason Patric. It had its own glitches, like Travis manhandling a ten-inch ball fresh out of a mortar barrel (don't try this at home without welding mitts), and Crockett performing "Listen to the Mockingbird" on the fiddle, which wasn't composed until 1854, eighteen years after the battle.
They used some great parts from the old movie " Jim Bowies Last Command "
They put up a good fight
Definitely the people long before us were braver and with stronger principles like honor and patriotism. They didn't clinch to shitty pathetic shameful lives like we do.
Inside high walls witb US manufactured guns
so glad James ARNESS WAS IN THIS. MOVIE.
neve4 mentioned Blandersberg though. Where the British suffered morw casualties from chasing the Yanks than from fighting them.
The film DID have some things going for it... it had the best portrayal of Santa Anna ever brought to film, played by Raul Julia. It also made mention of Crockett's role in the Creek War, and Bowie's dealings with Jean Lafitte. The film did show a 4:00AM attack sequence, but the trouble was budget.. they didn't have the money to film a full scale battle scene, and so had to use footage from The Last Command, which showed the attack after dawn.
The last command
Sterling Hadden
Hayden. Sorry
Give what fer Davie!!
REMEMBER THE ALAMO.
Dig those rubber ladders!
Alex Baldwin Was travis, And as far as the fight scene it's not totally inaccurate probably par for the course as to what happened, but no general Santa antagonist had no British advisors.
Cavalry point your spears at the fort and charge. Keep galloping , when you reach the walls keep pocking in till you create a breach. If you are alive till then you can proceed inside.
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Wow, me search for alamo movie and ended hire, nice old movie.
And salute to texas people fought fight in this defense war, they're so brave against so many enemy eventually knows they're outnumbered again enemies.
Hope their souls rest in peace all side.
From japan.
Sorry if my English not so good
never apologise for not being good with a language not your own
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I Romance Of War, till you are there!!!
Glad I missed it.
Love the action! They didn't get much accurate, but so what?