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Post by marvelous35 on Apr 2, 2008 13:41:18 GMT -5
has anything been taken out of the ground from this battle, from either side, i figure with this being a rest ground for the mexicians there had to be alot of things left when this battle happened.
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Post by marvelous35 on Apr 4, 2008 14:09:05 GMT -5
okay thanks i will have to check that out, i figured they had converted some to dvds by now...
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Post by marvelous35 on Apr 3, 2008 16:45:47 GMT -5
can anyone possibly burn me a copy of the Alamo movie with Alec Baldwin...........i need it for my collection, and i have never seen it and it would be nice to see all these flaws i hear about.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 31, 2008 1:44:55 GMT -5
okay so i am missing a alamo movie and i dont think many people like it, but i want it real bad.
there was John Waynes Alamo....
there was the Billy Bob Alamo....
but was there not a Alamo movie in the middle of those two....
if someone could let me know, i really need a copy of it...
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 27, 2008 0:47:08 GMT -5
Has anyone thought about digging way further outside the Alamo walls. I am talking you know 100 yards outside the walls, when the Mexicians were charging, and the texans where firing the cannons and firing all those rounds, there had to be alot of rounds left in the dark way outside the walls, that have not been found. It could be anywhere, a gas station, a hotel lot.......a area of woods.
i just think there has to be alot of places where there are some things untounched.
If a trech really could have been nuried all this time and just now be found in the middle of a growing city, than there has to be more.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 27, 2008 0:39:00 GMT -5
I was wondering if there was any news from the past or now, about the rifle DAvy used in the Alamo. I see there has been some stuff that came up about the possiblity of finding Bowies knife, but what about something of Davy.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 1:13:59 GMT -5
Someone in San Antonio told me about a doctor who went into the Alamo several months after the battle and was in the room he claimed Bowie was killed in, and that there was still blood stains on the wall. Have any of you heard anything about that. I have never read about it anywhere, or heard about it anywhere, but this one man that was at the Alamo standing outside telling stories to people, and he didnt work there, just some Alamo fan.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 1:11:29 GMT -5
I have also wondered about that. I did not realize the fate after the battle the Texans suffered.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 0:18:07 GMT -5
After the battle they talked about the wounded, when it comes to the mexician soilders. What about the Texans, there had to be a few of them that were not dead yet after that battle. Maybe a few of them playing dead, or a few of them that were knocked into some sort of a coma state. I just wonder how many after the battle were laying there still barely breathing.
I also guess that maybe the mexicians had some sort of thing they did as they walked up to each one to make sure they were dead after the battle.
i have so many questions about this battle
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 31, 2008 12:26:11 GMT -5
SO what if we would have purely concentrated on taking the mexicains off the walla when they started to climb.
Seems to me if you were to take out your bowie knife or grab one of the mexician guns as he came over the wall. With enough speed and passion you could sit there and just stab them one by one as they got to the top of the wall.
I dont think i would have even focused on anything else, cayse you could probley take down 20 a piece beofre they out runed the fort.. I know i could probley swing a Bowie knife in a mans chest extremely more efficent than loading a gun over and over a few times while the pack i am shooting at has moved to the walls. I dont know it was just a thought i had last night when i was trying to sleep.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 31, 2008 12:22:39 GMT -5
wow i actully never thought of it like that before, when you get to the politcal part of it all, i am sure Davy would have had alot of support.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 31, 2008 1:38:50 GMT -5
but does that not surprise you sa little bit. If your friends or people you knew were killed like they were , and you had the man right in front of you, face to face, you dont think one thing would have been said about it.
Because from what i hear Santa Anna was in a tent for like 2 hours writing the paper that gave texas to us, i just dont understand why Houston or some of the Soilders, would not have wanted to know some answers. If i was screaming "remember the Alamo", "remember Goilad", it would be one of the first things on my mind.
I would be letting him know how important Davy was to the United States, and I would want to know about the city of San Antonio itself was left after the battle.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 30, 2008 12:20:58 GMT -5
Here is what I was thinking about last night when I went to sleep. So after we caught Santa Anna and we did not hang him cause we wanted Texas. Dont you think when he was talking to Houston through probley one of his soilders, that he would have been asked question about the Alamo directly from Houston. There is no way during the moment of catching him and having him go into a tent ad right off texas to the texans, that he did not say some important facts. Youwould SAnta Anna had the answers on Davy being captured or not. How many funeral prys there were, The dead and the wounded to a real answer now 60. I am just thinking Santa Anna and Houston had to have had some sort of breifing and had to probley be pretty detailed. If i was houston i would have wanted to know everything about the Alamo and Goiliad and I would have not stopped till i got all the information.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 0:56:40 GMT -5
If you were commanding the Alamo, would you have done anything diffrent, that maybe would have had a better outcome?
I think if I was in charge, I might have made the battlefield smaller, if I had 21 peices or artillary, and 185 men, i would have used the church as my main point, and brought everything down to a smaller scale, 21 big guns and 185 rifles in a smaller distance would sure get more numbers.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 0:25:21 GMT -5
wow thats awesome to hear. You would have to think there was many things that had to be attractive to many peoples eyes. I would think the bowie knife, anything to maybe do with travis, anything to maybe to with Davy, but I hear that the mexician soilders would not really have known how important to the American way he was.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 24, 2008 23:52:36 GMT -5
are there any artifacts from the battle of the alamo to have been looted and passed down through family generations? I think there has to be lots of stuff floating out in Mexcio, because from what I tend to hear and have read, after the battle many soilders looted the battle site. I would think they would not have burned all of these items.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 30, 2008 12:23:53 GMT -5
I would think you would want to kill as many of the mexicians as you could have, so that theory on the poles and stuff is good. You take a army and you knock out 60 to 70 percent of them, you change Santa Annas whole gameplan
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 27, 2008 0:37:10 GMT -5
What about lining the outer or inner walls with gun powder, than when they got close lite it and watch the push of the enemy forces go backwards..
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 25, 2008 0:53:14 GMT -5
If only there would have been a way to do something more like that all the way around, I think confusion would have been good, even is breif, could have given us another cannon shot or two, another couple of rounds of musket shot.
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Post by marvelous35 on Mar 24, 2008 23:15:44 GMT -5
I always think about what a diffrence it could have made if the Texans would have built some deep and wide treches all the way around the alamo, or around the weakest points, like something 4 to 6 foot wide, so when all the soilders charged the walls, they would have gotten bunched up trying to get organized and trying to get through the deep ditch. I figure it would have slowed the advace pretty well, and caused some confusion.
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