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The Alamo

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It looks like the map I saw when I was there plus it's is Alby. What else would he have a picture of? [:D]

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It looks like the map I saw when I was there plus it's is Alby. What else would he have a picture of? [:D]

RUPD is right.... http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/texas-maps.htm

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It looks like the map I saw when I was there plus it's is Alby. What else would he have a picture of? [:D]

RUPD is right.... http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/texas-maps.htm

Very nice
Thanks for the link

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Sacrilege to dishonor the fallen.
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Funny part for me is when they show the movie. They say to be quiet in respect for the fallen and then the movie says that the whole Texas uprising was because the Mexicans didn't like the influx of Yankee immigrants. Damn Yankees took their jobs, didn't speak their language, ect.[:D]

I was biting my tounge (literally) to keep from laughing at the irony. No one else seemed to see it however.

When I saw that, I immediately thought, "Alamo", even without noticing that Alby made the topic. I've never seen a map of the place before. 

All anyone ever sees now adays is the chapel in lower left corner, as that is all thats left, plus part of 'long barracks' (where numbers 54-57 are)
the place was in reality gigantic, and even with 18 or so cannon was simply to difficult to defend with only 200 or so men.

The remains of the Cabrini Green projects in Chicago?

cannot verify this but...I seem to remember reading that most of the defenders of the Alamo had in fact been born in Britain? Does this mean that we Brits can claim The Alamo as another of our glorious defeats?

There were defenders of many nationalities at The Alamo.
"most" were not from England.
Below is list of Known defenders.
England, Scotland, and Ireland are well represented.

Juan Abamillo, San Antonio
R. Allen
Mills DeForrest Andross, Vermont
Micajah Autry, N.C.
Juan A. Badillo, San Antonio
Peter James Bailey, Ky.
Isaac G. Baker, Ark.
William Charles M. Baker, Mo.
John J. Ballentine
Richard W. Ballantine, Scotland
John J. Baugh, Va
Joseph Bayliss, Tenn.
John Blair, Tenn.
Samuel C. Blair, Tenn.
William Blazeby, England
James Butler Bonham, S.C.
Daniel Bourne, England
James Bowie, Tenn
Jesse B. Bowman
George Brown, England
James Brown, Pa.
Robert Brown
James Buchanan, Ala.
Samuel E. Burns, Ireland
George D. Butler, Mo
Robert Campbell, Tenn.
John Cane, Pa.
William R. Carey, Va.
Charles Henry Clark, Mo
M.B. Clark
Daniel William Cloud, Ky.
Robert E. Cochran, N.J.
George Washington Cottle, Tenn.
Henry Courtman, Germany
Lemuel Crawford, S.C.
David Crockett, Tenn.
Robert Crossman, Mass.
David P. Cummings, Pa.
Robert Cunningham, N.Y.
Jacob C. Darst, Ky.
John Davis, Ky.
Freeman H. K. Day
Jerry C. Day, Mo.
Squire Daymon, Tenn.
William Dearduff, Tenn.
Stephen Dennison, England
Charles Despallier, La.
Almeron Dickinson, Tenn.
John H. Dillard, Tenn.
James R. Dimpkins, England
Lewis Duel, N.Y.
Andrew Duvalt, Ireland
Carlos Espalier, San Antonio
Gregorio Esparza, San Antonio
Robert Evans, Ireland
Samuel B. Evans, N.Y.
James L. Ewing, Tenn
William Fahbaugh, Ala.
John Flanders, Mass.
Dolphin Ward Floyd, N.C.
John Hubbard Forsyth, N.Y.
Antonio Fuentes, San Antonio
Galba Fuqua, Ala.
William H. Furtleroy, Ky.
William Garnett, Tenn.
James W. Garrand, La.
James Girard Garrett, Tenn.
John E. Garvin
John E. Gaston. Ky.
James George
John Camp Goodrich, Tenn.
Albert Calvin Grimes, Ga.
Jose Maria Guerrero, Laredo, Tex.
James C. Gwynne, England
James Hannum
John Harris, Ky.
Andrew Jackson Harrison
William B. Harrison, Ohio
Charles M. Haskell (Heiskell), Tenn.
Joseph M. Hawkins, Ireland
John M. Hays, Tenn.
Patrick Henry Herndon, Va.
William D. Hersee, England
Tapley Holland, Ohio
Samuel Holloway, Pa.
William D. Howell, Mass.
Thomas Jackson, Ireland
William Daniel Jackson, Ireland
Green B. Jameson, Ky.
Gordon C. Jennings, Conn.
Damacio Jimenes, Tex.
Lewis Johnson, Wales
William Johnson, Pa.
John Jones, N.Y
Johnnie Kellog
James Kenney, Va.
Andrew Kent, Ky.
Joseph Kerr, La.
George C. Kimball (Kimble), N.Y.
William P. King
William Irvine Lewis, Va.
William J. Lightfoot, Va.
Jonalhan L. Lindley, IL.
William Linn, Mass.
Jose Toribio Losoya, San Antonio
George Washington Main, Va.
William T. Malone, Va.
William Marshall, Tenn.
Albert Martin, Rhode Island
Edward McCafferty
Jesse McCoy, Tenn.
William McDowell, Pa.
James McGee, Ireland
John McGregor, Scotland
Robert McKinney, Ireland
Eliel Melton, Ga.
Thomas R. Miller, Tenn.
William Mills, Tenn.
Isaac Millsaps, Miss.
Edward F. Mitchusson, Va.
Edwin T. Mitchell
Napoleon B. Mitchell
Robert B. Moore, Va.
William Moore, Miss.
Robert Musselman, Ohio
Andres Nava, San Antonio
George Neggan, S.C.
Andrew M. Nelson, Tenn.
Edward Nelson S. C.
George Nelson S.C.
James Northcross, Va.
James Nowlan, Ireland
George Pagan, Miss.
Christopher Parker, Miss.
William Parks, N.C.
Richardson Perry
Amos Pollard, Mass.
John Purdy Reynolds, Pa.
Thomas H. Roberts
James Robertson, Tenn.
Isaac Robinson, Scotland
James M. Rose, Va.
Jackson J. Rusk Ireland
Joseph Rutherford, Ky.
Isaac Ryan, La.
Mial Scurlock, N.C.
Marcus L. Sewell, England
Manson Shied, Ga.
Cleveland Kinlock Simmons, S.C.
Andrew H. Smith, Tenn.
Charles S. Smith, Md.
Joshua G. Smith, N.C.
William H. Smith
Richard Starr, England
James E. Stewart, England
Richard L. Stockton, Va.
A. Spain Summerlin Tenn
William E. Summers Tenn
William D. Sutherland, Ala.
Edward Taylor, Tenn.
George Taylor, Tenn.
James Taylor, Tenn.
William Taylor, Tenn.
B. Archer M. Thomas, Ky.
Henry Thomas, Germany
Jesse G. Thompson, Ark.
John W. Thomson, N.C.
John M. Thruston, Pa.
Burke Trammel, Ireland
William Barret Travis, S.C.
George W. Tumlinson, Mo.
James Tylee, N.Y.
Asa Walker, Tenn.
Jacob Walker, Tenn.
William B. Ward, Ireland
Henry Warnell, Ark.
Joseph G. Washington, Tenn.
Thomas Waters, England
William Wells, Ga.
Isaac White, Ky.
Robert White
Hiram J. Williamson, Pa.
William Wills
David L. Wilson, Scotland
John Wilson, Pa.
Anthony Wolfe, England
Claiborne Wright, N.C.
Charles Zanco, Denmark

Thanks, point conceded although, could it not be true that some defenders reporting their place of origin, as San Antonio, or MO, for instance, might have been actually born elsewhere? (I also remember reading once that there were more Welshmen at the Alamo than at Rourkes Drift, Granted my memory isn't what is was but I'm not actually a fan of the Welsh so it's not like I made it up to upset the Texicans!).

Oops... before anyone gets me back on this I have now spotted the http://www.thealamo.org/defend.html site with an obviously well researched list of Alamo defenders. It would appear that I have been incorrectly remembering (I said my memory isnt what it was ...or did I ?) an Urban Myth. Apologies to Texicans everywhere.

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Funny part for me is when they show the movie. They say to be quiet in respect for the fallen and then the movie says that the whole Texas uprising was because the Mexicans didn't like the influx of Yankee immigrants. Damn Yankees took their jobs, didn't speak their language, ect.[:D]

I was biting my tounge (literally) to keep from laughing at the irony. No one else seemed to see it however.

The reason for the revolt was that Santa Anna siezed the Government of Mexico and threw out the Constitution. It had nothing to do with the Americans taking anything. The Mexicans living in Texas ALSO joined the revolt against Santa Anna.

Richard L. Stockton, Va.

The plaque I saw there had him from New Jersey.