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Was the Alamo the last refuge of scoundrels?
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PERHAPS we should forget the Alamo. The heroic tale of brave
Texans who lost their lives defending a dusty fort against a huge
Mexican army in the name of independence may not be all it seems.
The deaths of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie and 187 other noble souls
in the Mexican desert in 1836 has stirred the imagination ever since
and become an iconic episode in American history.
But a controversial new book by a Scottish academic on the
legendary siege - the subject of a new Hollywood blockbuster released
in the UK this weekend - sets out to explode the Alamo myth.
Far from being freedom ...
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A FRESH LOOK AT SANTA ANNA.(SHOWCASE)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...takes a fresh look at Santa Anna, the general who captured the Alamo, and finds him even...University, says even Santa Anna's victory at the Alamo was a botched job...superior firepower, Santa Anna chose to attack the Alamo with foot soldiers...
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Remembering the Alamo
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; ...States? Once the Alamo campaign begins...conditions within Santa Anna's army. He shows...Jackson hoped to lure Santa Anna across the border...the mainstream of Alamo scholarship in depicting...executed by order of Santa Anna. Long insists that the defense of the ...
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'Alamo': One to Remember
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; ...not your father's Alamo. In director and...Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's 1836 siege of...ones at that. As Santa Anna (Emilio Echevarria...convening around the Alamo -- a group that...ultimately defeat Santa Anna -- in what history...failure to come to the Alamo's ...
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; ...not, the surprisingly small Alamo chapel and its well- landscaped...the time -- holed up in the Alamo compound when Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna marched his army of several...spread, and soon "Remember the Alamo!" was a rallying cry heard...Gen. Sam Houston captured Santa ...
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THE ALAMO
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