What Happened To The Bodies At The Alamo?

If you're from Texas, you know that you must "Remember the Alamo." But what about all the bodies of the fallen soldiers? Were they remembered, or just forgotten and abandoned?

#Texas #Alamo #History

Cremated in a pyre | 0:00
Difficult to verify | 1:07
Mythmaking | 2:07
The burial of José Esparza | 3:02
Left out in the open | 4:06
The fate of the ashes | 5:19
Uncovered remains | 6:22
A tantalizing skull | 7:27
Local tribes | 8:27
21st century discoveries | 9:25

Voiceover by: Tim Bensch

[The_Dudester]

Singer/songwriter Phil Collins felt that he was in The Alamo during the battle. Unfortunately, the old fort is surrounded by kitschy shops. When one of those shops was for sale, he bought one. He carried out an archeological dig under the floor of the shop. He found belt buckles, bullets and knives. Those shops are built on sacred ground. The relics Phil Collins found were donated to The Alamo along with other relics he bought from collectors.

[christineparis]

We live near the Alamo, and my husband has a relative who fought and died at the Alamo. It is extremely haunted. Not in a bad way, just painful memories on both sides. The 1984 video on the Alamo with Billy Bob Thorton is a little noticed but great film with some actual speeches given according to historical accounts...

[robj]

a long time ago, an Alamo tour guide told me the Alamo funeral pyres were where the Dillards department store is about a block away from the chapel

[SylvainSybaris]

I know that Davy Crockett & Jim Bowie were killed at the Alamo.... Then later, Sam Houston rounded up a bunch of fighting yahoo's to defeat I used to live in Houston, Texas in 1996/97 and I visited the Alamo in San Antonio and the River Walk there in town was AWESOME.

[jasonmcalister]

I see the horse shoe hanging on the wall behind you it needs to be turned the other way because facing down supposed to be bad luck!

[sallykohorst]

Well a wonderful subject and thanks 😢😮for telling this story.

[keithdancer]

I've been to the Alamo. It was for a graduation present from Cisco Junior College in 1992.

[hollymcknight]

I am a Texan, thank you very much for pronouncing Jim Bowie‘s name correctly.

[flournoymason]

The Disney version of the fight at the Alamo was very popular in 1957. I had the pleasure of visiting the Alamo at that age. I thought I was in Heaven. I was 10 years old at the time and from Georgia.

[bryanb]

The movie with Billy bob Thornton is from 2004 and not the 80s like one commenter said

[fredwaller]

No one will ever know what happened to the following ones

[kennethquinnies]

How would the battle have gone if Daniel Boone and his 500 long riflemen had made it to the Alamo?

[friendlypersuasion]

I know this has no relation. But can we get some more William Holden Videos. Thanks

[_Clem_H_Fandango_]

STOP CALLING US TEX-IAN, WE ARE TEXANS, NO "I" IN THE WORD.

[michaelsternberg]

In defending the Alamo the defenders killed many times their numbers. They were heroes.

[bougeac]

I find it very hard to believe that over 600 Mexican troops fell at the Alamo. Many accounts state that the Mexican casualties were far lower.

[frankfranko]

They were not Texans they were from other states they were Slave Holdersw

[sergeipohkerova]

As a non-American, I'm guessing, *taco meat* ?