Did Davy Crockett die at the Alamo?

Answer 1

What is known about the final fate of Davy Crockett is that he died at the Battle of the Alamo. As there were no survivors on the Texan side to provide eyewitness, the legend that has evolved from the testimony of the soldiers of the Mexican army and other historians of the battle has it that Crockett went down fighting inside the Alamo compound, most likely shot in combat.

In 1955, some controversial evidence came to light that has questioned the accepted account of Crockett's fate. According to the diary of José Enrique de la Peña, there may have been up to 6 survivors, with Crockett perhaps among them. Peña's account states that several prisoners from the Alamo were taken by Mexican General Manuel Fernández Castrillón and summarily executed by order of Mexican General and President Antonio López de Santa Anna. Crockett, according to Peña's entry, was identified to Santa Anna by Castrillón, who along with two other officers, begged the General to spare the life of the great hero. Santa Anna refused, and ordered all survivors to be executed immediately.

Critics of this report tend to discount its validity on two key points. Primary of these is the fact that no other account of Crockett surviving the Alamo have surfaced except for Peña's account. No documentation in the archives of the Mexican government, nor any of the personal records of any other person or persons present at the Battle of the Alamo, have given any hints of any survivors amongst the defenders of the Alamo, much less any claiming Crockett as a survivor. Secondly, there is some speculation that Peña's account may have been a deliberate fabrication, with the intention of presenting Santa Anna in a far more diabolical light than American (and especially Texan) historians have given the General since the fall of the Alamo. All things considered, in all likelihood the most common account of Crockett's final fate was that he was killed in the final minutes of the siege, having fallen back to the Alamo's redoubt position of the long barracks with the last dozen or so of Travis' men. Two eyewitness survivors of the Alamo confirm that Crockett did die in the battle. Susanna Dickinson, the wife of an officer, said that Crockett died in the assault and that she saw Crockett's body between the long barracks and the chapel, and Travis' slave Joe said that he also saw Crockett lying dead with the bodies of slain Mexican soldiers around him.

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Answer 2

yes, everyone defending the Alamo died (according to official history), and Davy Crockett was among them. It was considered an heroic victory because it gave same houston enough time to gather an army together and defend the rest of Texas.

unless of course, you believe the old tale that he was merely knocked unconscious. And after the Mexican army left, the animals of the forest came to revive him.

He then apparently moved on to somewhere like Alaska, away from civilization, to explore new frontier territory.

(I think he met Santa at the north pole).

Answer 3

Yes he did die at the Alamo. I've never read or heard anything different from this.

Answer 4

Yes

Answer 5

Yes along with Jim Bowie.

Answer 6

Yes he did

Answer 7

Yup

Answer 8

yes i just watched a show on discovery or history channel it is a fact they said

Answer 9

Yep, he also picked up a hire car too.

Answer 10

yes, the mexicans had a glorious victory there. unfortunately, the bad guys won the war, and we are stuck with Texas.