He also played some games on his I Phone.

And that was huge as it put the command of the fort under one man, instead of the faction between Bowie, and Travis.

He said they withstood 24 hours of bombardment without losing a single man. Also, Santa Anna ordered them to surrender but they refused, though it meant they would be put to the sword.

@@cryptozoomauler5505 the thing to keep in mind is that Santa Anna insisted the defenders of the Alamo leave their weapons behind when they came out and surrendered. Travis smelled a rat and refused. After the Alamo fell, Santa Anna marched on Goilad. They surrendered and followed directions leaving their weapons behind. They were all shot dead.

Horse cookies.

@@arch3088 In the early morning of March 5, Juana Navarro Alsbury, who had come to the Alamo with Bowie and was helping treat him for his illness, left the Alamo to talk to Santa Anna. Her leaving was confirmed by Susanna Dickinson, who felt she went to betray the defenders. But since she *returned* to the fort, it is more lilkely she was sent by Travis to feel out SA on any possible negotiations. The plan most likely backfired. Although SA probably knew of the desperation of the defenders, the confirmation of this knowledge plus the fact that on March 7 his major artillary were due to arrive, most likely spurred SA to set an immediate time for the assault. SA did not want the seige to end without glory and a strong message sent to Houston. Travis probably felt deep guilt over getting everyone stuck like rats because he was over confident reinforcements would arrive. The defenders had already foolishly miscalculated how quickly SA was bearing down on Bejar. "On February 16 and February 18 local resident Ambrosio Rodriguez warned his good friend William Barret Travis that their relatives further south claimed that Santa Anna was on the march towards Bexar.[17][18] Two days later Juan Seguin's scout Blas María Herrera reported that the vanguard of the Mexican army had crossed the Rio Grande. There had been many rumors of Santa Anna's imminent arrival, but **Travis ignored them**.[18][19] For several hours that night a council of war held at the Alamo argued over whether to believe the rumors.[18] Travis was convinced that the Mexican army would not arrive in Bexar until at least mid-March.[20] He, and others in the Texian army thought Santa Anna would not march until spring, when the grass had begun to grow again. They overlooked the fact that mesquite grass sprouted earlier than normal grass.[21] Travis had also assumed that Santa Anna would not have begun gathering troops for an invasion of Texas until after he had learned of Cos's defeat; the Texians did not realize that Santa Anna had begun preparations for an invasion months before.[22] With no idea that the Mexican army was so close, all but 10 members of the Alamo garrison joined about 2000 Bexar residents at a fiesta to celebrate George Washington's birthday. (Feb 21) [27] Centralists in Bexar soon alerted Santa Anna to the party, and he ordered General Ramirez y Sesma to lead a cavalry force to take the Alamo while the garrison celebrated elsewhere. The raid had to be called off when sudden rains made the Medina unfordable.[26 We want to make heroes out of humans who often make terrible mistakes. SA great mistake was the no quarter at the Alamo and Goliad (which no one wants to talk about), which shocked everyone and sent reverberations throughout Texas. Although the fight had a significant purpose to liberate Texas for slavery and cotton, it's real immediate signiicance was the signal that SA would spare no one, leading to his foolishness at San Jacinto.

@@kenkaplan3654 There are a lot of assumptions in your narrative. What you say is possible but I know of no documentation to support it. We don't have to make heroes out of the defenders, they did that themselves. I don't understand the need to try to belittle humans that despite their human weaknesses do heroic things for the betterment of future generations.

@@arch3088 " I don't understand the need to try to belittle humans that despite their human weaknesses do heroic things for the betterment of future generations." Personal valor and true heroism are two different things.. The same can be said for the soldiers of the Confederacy. While I admire the personal valor of the defenders, and it became mythic quickly, in spite of their enormous blundrers (they were ordered to blow it up and leave well before Santa Anna arrived). Their valor imo was kind of forced upoi them as SA said clearlty there would be no mercy. As in the Civil War the issue of the primacy of slavery as motivation for independence cannot be ignored. Austin was adamant about the retention of slavery. After Texas indepedence slave owners and slaves flooded to the territory. Texas had one of the most extensive virulent slavery provisions in its constitution of any territory in Notrh America. "The Section 9 of the General Provisions of the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, ratified in 1836, made slavery legal again in Texas and defined the status of the enslaved and people of color in the Republic of Texas.[29] People of color who had been servants for life under Mexican law would become property. Congress should pass no law restricting emigrants from bringing their enslaved people into Texas. Congress shall not have the power to emancipate enslaved people. Slaveowners may not free their enslaved servants without Congressional approval unless the freed people leave Texas. Free persons of African descent were required to petition the Texas Congress for permission to continue living in the country. Africans and the descendants of Africans and Indians were excluded from the class of 'persons' having rights. The following year all those who had been living in Texas at the time of independence were allowed to remain. On the other hand, the legislature created political segregation; it classified free residents with at least 1/8 African heritage (the equivalent to one great-grandparent) as a separate category, and abrogated their citizens' rights, prohibiting them from voting, owning property, testifying against whites in court, or intermarrying with whites.[30] As planters increased cotton production, they rapidly increased the purchase and transport of enslaved workers. By 1840 there were 11,323 enslaved people in Texas.[24] "I don't understand the need to try to belittle humans that despite their human weaknesses do heroic things for the **betterment of future generations**" Really? You really believe that? Chattel slavery not only was an atrocity to the enslaved, it rotted the soul of the owner. Plus those of Mexican heritage inTexas have beeb demeaned by withes and the savior story of the Alamo for nearly 200 years. I Travis and Bowie both had slaves at the Alamo. Crockett came to Texs to revive a political career. Circumstances got him trapped. We create myths but myths are not reality. The Alamo is a compelling story, the American 300 Spartans. But seen in its true larger context, rarely discussed until recently, it was not a particularly noble enterprise.