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|u/dyslexic__redditor - 19 hours
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|The article states there are two surviving male defenders, the second
|was… “Another survivor was a former Mexican soldier named Brigido
|Guerrero, who fought with the defenders but apparently escaped death by
|convincing the Mexicans he had been taken captive.”
|u/CNpaddington - 18 hours
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|Guess he was lucky everyone else was dead or someone might have spoken
|up
|u/light24bulbs - 16 hours
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|*ties self up*
|u/CNpaddington - 15 hours
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|It’s trickier than it seems….don’t ask me how I know
|u/Krieghund - 12 hours
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|That's not as far fetched as it sounds. During that era, it wasn't
|uncommon for prisoners of war to wind up fighting for their captors.
|u/JohnLaw1717 - 19 hours
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| "around 15 survivors of the battle on the Texan side remained. Some
|controversy and debate has surrounded the exact number and their
|identity, but most were wives, children, servants and slaves" "Another
|survivor was a former Mexican soldier named Brigido Guerrero, who fought
|with the defenders but apparently escaped death by convincing the
|Mexicans he had been taken captive. A woman named Andrea Castañón
|Villanueva, better known as Madam Candelaria, later made a career of
|claiming to be a survivor of the Alamo, but many historians doubt her
|story."
|u/Klotzster - 19 hours
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|I wish I could remember this
|u/yupimsure - 12 hours
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|I see what you did there😉
|u/entrepenurious - 18 hours
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|it's better à la mode.
|u/SophiaofPrussia - 12 hours
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|There’s a really interesting book about the Alamo called “Forget the
|Alamo”.
|u/Onefortwo - 16 hours
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|He survived by hiding in the basement
|u/d00dsm00t - 14 hours
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|Can you say it with me? Adobe.
|u/jumjimbo - 13 hours
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|THE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT
|u/thatbrunettethere - 8 hours
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|👏👏👏👏
|u/NoHopeOnlyDeath - 6 hours
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|🎶DEEP IN THE HEEEAAART OF TEXAAAS🎶
|u/RoarOfTheWorlds - 16 hours
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|I misread and thought it meant he was still alive. I was really confused
|for a while there.
|u/Pumpkin_Blossom - 19 hours
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|Joe was sold four times in his life, with his most well known owner
|being William B.
|u/Gingerchaun - 19 hours
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|Hey not him. That's Joe. Joe's a good guy.
|u/ol_dirty_applesauce - 12 hours
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|Why were the Texans fighting the Mexicans? Texas wanted independence
|from Mexico? Why did Texas want independence from Mexico?
|u/MaterialRevolution57 - 11 hours
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|Texas is a former territory of Mexico. In an effort to introduce
|economic stimulus and as a result of (perceived) mutually beneficial
|negotiations between the Mexican government and a large landowning
|American family, some 300 American families were allowed to settle in
|what is now Texas. At the time, it was extremely sparsely populated.
|However, this family did not stop at 300 families. Soon enough after
|the agreement, a massive influx of settlers began pouring into Texas
|causing strife between the two ethnic groups. Soon enough, hostilities
|broke out and Texas declared independence from Mexico in 1836.
|u/Teantis - 5 hours
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|Also mexico outlawed slavery and the Texans didn't like that
|u/Stevie_Ray816 - 15 hours
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|Just tell em “Soy negro, no desparo”
|u/backspace_cars - 19 hours
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|Forget the Alamo [https://time.com/6072141/alamo-history-
|myths/](https://time.com/6072141/alamo-history-myths/)
|u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho - 6 hours
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|The Mexican army had to cross through a separate rebelling province to
|even reach Texas to fight at the Alamo. [Almost half of Mexico was in
|the process of revolting at the time](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
|Revolts_against_the_Centralist_Republic_of_Mexico). I’m sure slavery
|was at least part of the reason, but let’s not pretend there weren’t a
|million other grievances with the Mexican state.
|u/JohnLaw1717 - 16 hours
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|Like clockwork, the Texas Revolution for slavery myth is brought up.
|The Mexican government had an authoritarian takeover and government
|was centralized. Over a dozen Mexican states revolted at the same
|time. Texas and Yucatan would gain their independence. The Mexican
|flag over the Alamo has an 1824 over it representing the more liberal
|Mexican constitution of 1824.
|u/backspace_cars - 16 hours
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|They outlawed slavery, the rich Spaniards didn't like that, tried to
|over throw the government and got their teeth kicked in.
|u/partylange - 15 hours
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|Texas won independence...
|u/DonnieMoistX - 14 hours
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|And they also weren’t Spaniards
|u/Intelligent-Soup-836 - 15 hours
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|William B. Travis was a Lieutenant Colonel
|https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Travis
|u/Intelligent-Soup-836 - 14 hours
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|Wikipedia is a perfectly cromulent source, you can start there and
|use it as a good launch pad.
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