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Posted: May 29,
2007 3:16 p.m. San Antonio, Texas
by
Ira Garner © 2008
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Just as denoted by a recent
movie History has reserved a story about a band
of warriors who fought against insurmountable
odds. Of course that was the Battle of
Thermopylae where
300
Spartans
stood against the Persians for three days in one
of history's most famous last stands.
The Battle of the Alamo
during the
Texas Revolution was the first and last
stand for the volunteers from Coahuila y Tejas.
The garrison commander, South Carolinan attorney
Willian Barret Travis, meant to delay Santa
Ana's invasion on the north shore of the Rio
Brazos, buying time for Sam Houston to build up
his army. The garrison held out for 12 days. On
the 13th day, every defender died in a surprise,
pre-dawn attack. Overall casualties for the
Mexicans numbered around 600 dead. Over 200
Mexicans were killed outright, and another 400
or more died of their wounds in the ensuing
weeks. The battle was a Pyrrhic victory for
Santa Ana, who could ill-afford to lose a third
of his fighting force to such a small collection
of volunteers.
By the most accurate
estimate 189 had died defending the Alamo. The
price that some have paid that made a
difference.
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Ira Garner is an
Award winning independent writer and reader, who is just
a few degrees short of an education.
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