Nancy's distant cousin, Patrick Henry Herndon, is listed among the defenders who gave their lives for the cause of freedom.
We caught the tail end of a re-enactment with volunteer participants from the crowd!
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Remember the Alamo
Before we visited the Alamo, we saw a movie made 22 years ago and still said to be the most accurate portrayal of the battle of the Alamo. It was on the giant iMax screen, so larger than life, but also, superbly represented and deeply moving. We walked out of the theater just a few short blocks away onto the grounds of the Alamo compound and into the chapel, the only surviving original building. It was an amazing experience to be in that exact spot where the battle took place.
Nancy's distant cousin, Patrick Henry Herndon, is listed among the defenders who gave their lives for the cause of freedom.
Nancy's distant cousin, Patrick Henry Herndon, is listed among the defenders who gave their lives for the cause of freedom. 
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"Liberty or death," wrote and said Lt. Col. William B. Travis, commander at the Alamo. And so all the men died in battle, outnumbered ~2600 to ~200. A few women and children survived and were released by Santa Anna, commander of the Mexican army.
Texas won its independence from Mexico with the defeat of Santa Anna, the president of Mexico, by General Sam Houston at the Battle of San Jacinto in April, 1836. It became its own nation, the Republic of Texas, for almost 10 years, until it joined the United States as the 28th state. Six flags have flown over Texas.
Santa Anna, we learned, was a ruthless ruler. His plan of attack on the Alamo resulted in unnecessarily high loss of his own men, but when his high commanders raised an objection, he said the cost meant nothing. After his crushing defeat of the Alamo, the rally cry for future battles became "Remember the Alamo" which implied "We will fight to the death for our freedom and we won't forget what you did to our comrades at the Alamo."
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas is an organization of women with proven descendancy from those who settled in Texas while it was a Republic, before it became a state. Nancy's 4th great grandparents, Ransom and Belinda Loving, and 5th great grandmother, Belinda's mother, Ruth Brown, settled in Texas just a few short months after it became a state.
It must have been surreal, standing and walking through, the Alamo. I'm in awe of all that happened there and then trying to put that with the pictures of it now...wow. It's very cool that you were able to visit and pay tribute.
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