what happened at the alamo?

Question

im confused, in my book it says that santa anna set up a barricade in the alamo but it also says that the texans were defending it.. so who was really in the alamo and who was defending it? please get back soon, i need this for a paper!!!
thanks!

Answer 1

Texas was fighting for its independence from Mexico. Much like the American Revolution, those living in Texas were upset with the decisions made by the Mexican Government concerning them.

In San Antonio in 1835, those wanting independance from Mexico joined in the fighting against Mexican troops in the city. When the Mexican troops surrendered, the Texans occupied the Alamo and began to shore up its defenses.

Mexico finally sent in General Santa Anna to put a stop to the uprising which surprised those in the Alamo. The 200 men wanting independance from Mexico were in the Alamo with General Santa Anna and his troops sitting right outside creating a barricade that prevented any reinforcements or supplies from getting inside the Alamo.

So, in short, the Texans were defending the Alamo while inside it.

Answer 2

On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's army outside San Antonio nearly caught them by surprise. Undaunted, the Texians and Tejanos prepared to defend the Alamo together. The defenders held out for 13 days against Santa Anna's army. William B. Travis, the commander of the Alamo sent forth couriers carrying pleas for help to communities in Texas. On the eighth day of the siege, a band of 32 volunteers from Gonzales arrived, bringing the number of defenders to nearly two hundred. Legend holds that with the possibility of additional help fading, Colonel Travis drew a line on the ground and asked any man willing to stay and fight to step over — all except one did. As the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense of Texas, and they were ready to give their lives rather than surrender their position to General Santa Anna. Among the Alamo's garrison were Jim Bowie, renowned knife fighter, and David Crockett, famed frontiersman and former congressman from Tennessee. The final assault came before daybreak on the morning of March 6, 1836, as columns of Mexican soldiers emerged from the predawn darkness and headed for the Alamo's walls. Cannon and small arms fire from inside the Alamo beat back several attacks. Regrouping, the Mexicans scaled the walls and rushed into the compound. Once inside, they turned a captured cannon on the Long Barrack and church, blasting open the barricaded doors. The desperate struggle continued until the defenders were overwhelmed. By sunrise, the battle had ended and Santa Anna entered the Alamo compound to survey the scene of his victory. * 5 minutes ago

Answer 3

The short answer is a very small group of valiant and brave Texans fought to the death and were defeated by a vastly superior Mexican army led by the Mexican dictator Santa Anna. Because of Col. William B. Travis' famous letter from the Alamo, the small Texas army was inspired to captured and defeat Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto, where Santa Anna was forced to give the newly declared Republic of Texas her freedom in 1836. When the Republic of Texas was annexed by the US in 1845, Mexico invaded the then American state of Texas, leading to their loss of all of the lands the US acquired in the Mexican War. The US had tried to buy much of this land before the war, but Mexico would not sell. The Mexican War helped solidify the rest of the Mexican nation into a coherent whole. Texas was the only Mexican state to successfully win her freedom in this time of revolution and upheaval in Mexico's history. All the other rebellious states that tried to break away from Santa Anna's central authority were held together in present-day Mexico. Santa Anna lived and ruled Mexico much longer than we in the US hear about.

Answer 4

Santa Anna was a part of the new Mexican government. After only recently winning independence from Spain, Mexico wanted establish authority within its borders. Many Americans left the US due to problems that would lead to the civil war and were squatting on Mexican territory that was sparsely populated. Power was taken from the regions and placed in the national government and Texans (not a State or a state at this time) were not happy about it. Mexico won the battle but not the war.

Answer 5

The Alamo was in Texas, which of course belonged to Mexico at the time. You can't really defend something which isn't your own. There were a lot of American "settlers" who didn't want to abide by Mexico's rules-mainly the slavery issue. The fact that Davy Crockett was there doesn't help the matter much, he was a slave owner who slaughtered countless Native Americans.

Answer 6

The Mexican s had the rights to drive off the American illegal aliens....won the battle due to vastly superiorior numbers.

The war escalated after this vistory and Mexico lost and had to cede Texas and now New Mexico to the US.

A new Alamo is developing soon when vastly superior US forces will have to drive out the Mexican aliens squatting around the same place.

Answer 7

13 days of glory if it was not for Jim bowie and Davey Crockett and all the other men then it would be a very different place now them men from Texas and all the other places gave there life's for what they believed in Santa Anna was a murder he was just another Hitler there were 125 against 2,500 and they stopped him for 13 days

Answer 8

LOOK WHERE WE NOW!!