Originally posted by oldhorn2:
I have to wonder FB....when you say knowing what we know now....I wonder how many of the defenders that were in that battle would have stayed.
Sam Houston was absolutely correct to not go to the aid of the Alamo. Jim Fannin on the other hand caused his men to die an empty death by not immediately going to the Alamo.Who knows? Perhaps many would have survived that would have been epic battle.
The Alamo was a ruin when Travis entered it and of no real importance at that time. What seems to be lost in the retelling of that battle is that the absolutely most heroic of all the defenders gets little mention.....Jim Bonham was sent out by Travis with that now very famous letter by Travis to Sam Houston pleading for reinforcements When Houston told him no help was on the way, Bonham,knowing it was suicide, felt honor bound to return and tell his comrads they were done for and no help was on the way. He rode through the Mexican lines to be the last man to enter the Alamo. Every time I hear his name it sends shivers up my spine.
Houston pursued a now known successful strategy of extending enemy supply lines Shin Tsu would have approved