Quote:We all know the legend: Davy Crockett - fists clenched, rifle blazing - dying in a storm of gunfire at the Alamo. A martyr's death for Texan freedom. But... what if it never happened? What if America's most iconic frontier hero met a fate so shocking, so politically explosive, that the truth was buried for 140 years? Imagine this instead: Crockett... surrendering.A bombshell document surfaces in Mexico. It claims Crockett didn't fall fighting. It claims he was captured alive. Dismissed as heresy. Until… An eyewitness report surfaces... days after the Alamo fell. Buried in plain sight. Then...Sam Houston's own words: 'Seven men surrendered.' Seven. But no names given. Why? Now... picture the scene: The smoke clears. Crockett stands, unarmed, before Santa Anna. A Mexican general pleads for mercy. Santa Anna flicks his glove... a silent death sentence.Not one. Not two. But FIVE Mexican officers - men who stormed the Alamo - swear they saw it. Crockett. Captured. Executed in cold blood. Their testimonies, hidden in diaries and archives for decades... now scream the truth. This isn't conspiracy. This is evidence. Military logs. Private letters. Sworn testimonies from BOTH sides of the war. Historians agree: The preponderance of proof is overwhelming. The myth... is dead.So what REALLY happened to Davy Crockett? The truth is more brutal than legend. And it rewrites history. Don't look away." This isn't conspiracy. So there is no doubt that he did fight with great honor and valor during those final hours, but there is another version of his death that seems to be corroborated to the point of being almost irrefutable as the true scenario of the events of March 6, 1836. This alternative account, long dismissed by traditionalists, has steadily gained traction among modern scholars. In 1955, a purported memoir from Mexico had the audacity to claim that Crockett surrendered rather than dying in battle. That version of the story was treated as only blasphemous hearsay for decades until it was translated into English in 1975, prompting renewed scrutiny. As historians started looking at corroborating evidence, including overlooked military logs and private letters, the story began to change fundamentally. One of the first official reports coming after the battle came from Sam Houston on March 11, 1836 and said as follows, quote, after the fort was carried seven men surrendered and called for Santa Ana and quarter, end quote. Houston did not specifically name Crockett, likely avoiding controversy early in the Texan campaign, however, newspaper articles soon after the battle reported that a group of defenders did indeed surrender against impossible odds.The Morning Courier and New York Enquirer reported on July 9, 1836, quote, six Americans were discovered near the wall yet unconquered. Undaunted, Davy Crockett stepped forward to face General Santa Ana and looked at him steadfastly in the face, a final act of defiance, end quote. The survivors’ captor Manuel Fernandez Castrillon asked Santa Ana how he wished to proceed, pleading for mercy. The Mexican commander replied coldly, have I not told you before how to dispose of them? Several junior officers pulled their swords and swiftly and cruelly plunged the blades into the chests of the defenseless prisoners. This brutal act, witnessed by multiple soldiers, became a stain on the campaign.

(Yesterday, 12:27 PM)Michigan Swamp Buck Wrote: I remember a movie or a program that had some surrender, of course, Santa Anna executed almost everyone. I thought it was by firing squad, though. 

The Alamo was a sad day in U.S. history, and I felt like it represented a shameful defeat of the American spirit of independence. However, those Texans whooped them Mexicans not too long after that, so one battle was lost, but the war was won.