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"CROCKETT'S LAST SUNRISE"
Defending The Alamo!
Image size: 11 inches high x 17 inches wide.
| Davy Crockett fights alongside his small band of irregulars from Tennessee at the barricades of the Alamo. Their long rifles repel the initial assault of General Santa Anna's Mexican infantry soldiers against the besieged Texians and American volunteers of the Alamo's garrison in this famous last and battle. 6am on March 5th 1836 A.D. |
CROCKETT'S LAST SUNRISE, An American Legend...
"I have come to aid you all that I can,in your noble cause". With these words, David Crockett,
having recently arrived in the Mexican province of Texas, casts his lot with the small band of
volunteers, who were holding the former provisional capitol and now frontier post of San
Antonio De Bejar, and it's adjacent mission turned fortress, the former San Antonio De Valero,
now simply called, The Alamo.
The promise of free land, no taxes, and the chance to start life anew, brought Crockett and
thousands like him from the United States, Europe and the Mexican Republic itself to the as yet
tamed frontier of Texas. Between 1820 and 1835, thousands of immigrants, both legal and illegal
flocked to Texas. However, a combination of social, political, and cultural differences with the
young Mexican government started the Province towards civil unrest. Then open conflict
ensued when the President of the Mexican Republic, General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna,
assumed dictatorial powers and vowed to crush any opposition to his rule.
So it was, that in October of 1835, unrest turned to civil war, then to a move for independence
from Mexico. Following a series of stinging but relatively minor defeats in the winter of 1835,
Santa Anna personally assembled, then marched north through the interior, with an army
estimated at over 4 or 5 thousand, including infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
Defending The Alamo!
The first objective for the Army of Operations against Texas was the recapture of the largest city
in the province, San Antonio De Bejar. It was here, on February 23, 1836, that the tiny garrison
was surprised by Santa Anna's forward elements, and immediately beat a hasty retreat into the
dubious protection of the Alamo, located across east of the town and across the San Antonio
River.
Under the nominal command of James Bowie & William B. Travis, the fort's under-strengthened
garrison held out for almost two weeks as the siege works of the Mexican Army slowly moved
their way around the mission. Throughout the thirteen-day siege, couriers were sentout in
desperate appeals for reinforcements. These reinforcements, with one notable exception, were
never to come.
Having grown impatient with the progress of the siege, Santa Anna decided to assault the
mission on the morning of March 6, 1836, the 13th day of the siege. At approximately 5:30 am,
four columns of infantry, coming from the north, south, east, and west, rushed the walls
screaming "Viva Santa Anna! Viva La Republica!" Having almost been caught totally unaware,
the defenders on the walls rallied quickly and sent a veritable shower of shot and shell into the
massed columns.
Defending the earthen and log palisade that connected the Church with the south wall, David
Crockett and his companions pour well-aimed rifle and musket fire into the column assaulting
the southern defenses. This 100-man force under the command of Colonel Juan Morales has
the mission of trying to find a weak spot in the Alamo's southern defenses and at the same time,
keeping the defenders here from reinforcing their comrades to the north, from where the main
effort is taking place. Although well armed with English made Baker rifles, the Cazadores (Light
Infantry) under Colonel Morales command, are stopped dead in their tracks by the murderous
combination of the fort's cannon firing from the palisade and lunette covering the gate, and the
rifles and muskets of the defenders along the southern wall.
Last Stand for Davy Crockett
It's at this time that we see Crockett and his companions quickly taking stock of the situation.
Unaware that the defenders at the north wall are about to be overrun, Crockett takes time to
carefully load each shot before selecting a target. Despite the depictions of Crockett dressed
head to tow in buckskins, the former congressman is practically attired against the bitter cold
Texas winter. The only piece of frontier garb he wears is a cap made of either fox or raccoon
skin.
As the Texan Army was that in name only, the rest of the defenders are attired in civilian clothing
normal for the 1830's in the southern and eastern United States. Tophats being 'en vogue' at the
time, and many of the Alamo's garrison being professional men, not the rough and tumble
frontiersmen, as depicted in books and movies. Behind Crockett, along the palisade, one of the
fort's cannons lets loose with a blast against the massed formations, assaulting the south wall.
Inside the church, women and children huddle together nervously awaiting the outcome, as the
first glimmer of sunrise begins to show in the Texas sky.
First using their slower loading, but more accurate hunting rifles, Crockett and his men keep the
Mexican infantry at bay, forcing them to shift their attack further south to the fort's southwest
corner. Later as the walls are overrun, the defenders will use the stores of English made Brown
Bess muskets captured from the Mexican Army the previous December, against the attackers as
they fall back to the barracks buildings to make a final stand.
Remember The Alamo!
By sun up, the battle is over and all the defenders lie dead within the walls of the Alamo with
almost a thousand Mexican casualties incurred by their Army of Operations. From here on, the
legend of the Alamo begins to grow and eventually overshadow the real story of its defense as
well as the ongoing debate on the manner of Crockett's death. How he died is really immaterial.
David Crockett and the rest of the defenders of the Alamo stayed and fought to the bitter end,
and by dying, helped give life to a new republic.
Text By Richard Crawford
"I have come to aid you all that I can,in your noble cause". With these words, David Crockett,
having recently arrived in the Mexican province of Texas, casts his lot with the small band of
volunteers, who were holding the former provisional capitol and now frontier post of San
Antonio De Bejar, and it's adjacent mission turned fortress, the former San Antonio De Valero,
now simply called, The Alamo.
The promise of free land, no taxes, and the chance to start life anew, brought Crockett and
thousands like him from the United States, Europe and the Mexican Republic itself to the as yet
tamed frontier of Texas. Between 1820 and 1835, thousands of immigrants, both legal and illegal
flocked to Texas. However, a combination of social, political, and cultural differences with the
young Mexican government started the Province towards civil unrest. Then open conflict
ensued when the President of the Mexican Republic, General Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna,
assumed dictatorial powers and vowed to crush any opposition to his rule.
So it was, that in October of 1835, unrest turned to civil war, then to a move for independence
from Mexico. Following a series of stinging but relatively minor defeats in the winter of 1835,
Santa Anna personally assembled, then marched north through the interior, with an army
estimated at over 4 or 5 thousand, including infantry, cavalry, and artillery.
Defending The Alamo!
The first objective for the Army of Operations against Texas was the recapture of the largest city
in the province, San Antonio De Bejar. It was here, on February 23, 1836, that the tiny garrison
was surprised by Santa Anna's forward elements, and immediately beat a hasty retreat into the
dubious protection of the Alamo, located across east of the town and across the San Antonio
River.
Under the nominal command of James Bowie & William B. Travis, the fort's under-strengthened
garrison held out for almost two weeks as the siege works of the Mexican Army slowly moved
their way around the mission. Throughout the thirteen-day siege, couriers were sentout in
desperate appeals for reinforcements. These reinforcements, with one notable exception, were
never to come.
Having grown impatient with the progress of the siege, Santa Anna decided to assault the
mission on the morning of March 6, 1836, the 13th day of the siege. At approximately 5:30 am,
four columns of infantry, coming from the north, south, east, and west, rushed the walls
screaming "Viva Santa Anna! Viva La Republica!" Having almost been caught totally unaware,
the defenders on the walls rallied quickly and sent a veritable shower of shot and shell into the
massed columns.
Defending the earthen and log palisade that connected the Church with the south wall, David
Crockett and his companions pour well-aimed rifle and musket fire into the column assaulting
the southern defenses. This 100-man force under the command of Colonel Juan Morales has
the mission of trying to find a weak spot in the Alamo's southern defenses and at the same time,
keeping the defenders here from reinforcing their comrades to the north, from where the main
effort is taking place. Although well armed with English made Baker rifles, the Cazadores (Light
Infantry) under Colonel Morales command, are stopped dead in their tracks by the murderous
combination of the fort's cannon firing from the palisade and lunette covering the gate, and the
rifles and muskets of the defenders along the southern wall.
Last Stand for Davy Crockett
It's at this time that we see Crockett and his companions quickly taking stock of the situation.
Unaware that the defenders at the north wall are about to be overrun, Crockett takes time to
carefully load each shot before selecting a target. Despite the depictions of Crockett dressed
head to tow in buckskins, the former congressman is practically attired against the bitter cold
Texas winter. The only piece of frontier garb he wears is a cap made of either fox or raccoon
skin.
As the Texan Army was that in name only, the rest of the defenders are attired in civilian clothing
normal for the 1830's in the southern and eastern United States. Tophats being 'en vogue' at the
time, and many of the Alamo's garrison being professional men, not the rough and tumble
frontiersmen, as depicted in books and movies. Behind Crockett, along the palisade, one of the
fort's cannons lets loose with a blast against the massed formations, assaulting the south wall.
Inside the church, women and children huddle together nervously awaiting the outcome, as the
first glimmer of sunrise begins to show in the Texas sky.
First using their slower loading, but more accurate hunting rifles, Crockett and his men keep the
Mexican infantry at bay, forcing them to shift their attack further south to the fort's southwest
corner. Later as the walls are overrun, the defenders will use the stores of English made Brown
Bess muskets captured from the Mexican Army the previous December, against the attackers as
they fall back to the barracks buildings to make a final stand.
Remember The Alamo!
By sun up, the battle is over and all the defenders lie dead within the walls of the Alamo with
almost a thousand Mexican casualties incurred by their Army of Operations. From here on, the
legend of the Alamo begins to grow and eventually overshadow the real story of its defense as
well as the ongoing debate on the manner of Crockett's death. How he died is really immaterial.
David Crockett and the rest of the defenders of the Alamo stayed and fought to the bitter end,
and by dying, helped give life to a new republic.
Text By Richard Crawford