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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message Icon:                             Message: Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by richfed[/i] [br]Just finished reading a book on the Alamo called [b]Blood of Noble Men[/b], written by Alan C. Huffines, and superbly illustrated by Gary S. Zaboly [Eakin Press, 1999]. The book is basically a first person chronology of the 13 day siege, based upon the words of participants - Texian & Mexican - and witnesses. Been sitting around on my book shelf, and I guess with the new film coming out I was finally inspired to read it. Two things I found particularly fascinating in this all-around excellent work: 1 - It is somewhat fashionable by historians to discount Colonel Travis' near-mythical "drawing of the line" with his sword in the sand. Much is written about how this never happened and that it is purely folklore. To me, it's a mute point - Without a doubt, at the very least, a figurative line [i]was[/i] drawn in that Alamo compound. Surely, each man had to consider, "Do I stay & die, or should I make an escape?" Couriers freely came & went. Reinforcements did arrive. It was a possible option ... escape, that is. Anyway, using the accounts of Mrs. Candelaria, E. Esparza, Susannah Dickenson, & Louis Rose - who were all there - an unfashionably good case is made for it happening! 2 - This is the first I have heard of this, but Huffines puts forth testimony of a mass exodus, perhaps 50-100, of Texian defenders from the Alamo after the walls were breached. They were nearly all cut down by Mexican lancers waiting for just such a move. Mexican Army reports of the dead have always conflicted with the traditional number of defenders normally associated with this battle - 180 some odd. The case is made that here died the rest! Fascinating & fairly convincing ... I'm still thinking it through. I'm wondering, how will the new film portray these events? [/quote]    Upload an Image File From Your PC For Insertion in Your Post    -  HTML is OFF | Forum Code is ON   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.