Remember the Alamo

21 November 2009

Taki lives the High Life

After a 13-day siege the Mexicans breached the north wall of the fort and in a fierce 90-minute hand-to-hand battle every defender was killed. William Travis, of South Carolina, died early on from a bullet to the head. James Bowie of Tennessee died in his sickbed, fighting to the last with his famous Bowie knife, no one knows how the great David Crockett fell, but fall he did. Six hundred Mexicans died — one, José Maria Torres, while raising the Mexican flag after tearing down the Texan banner. His hand was still on the flagpole when Santa Anna came in to review the massacre. One slave, one Mexican and a few women were allowed to go free and spread the word. ‘Remember the Alamo’ became the slogan for the Mexican–American war that followed ten years later. Santa Anna died a pauper, probably the only Mexican president (as he later became) to do so rather than as a billionaire.

The names Bowie, Travis, Crockett and the rest are all carved on the monument in front of the mission. They are all Anglo-Saxon and German names, with two Hispanic ones. In the speech I gave to the Rockford Institute, I mentioned the fact that they died in vain, because they were fighting for Texan independence, not for the Union. If Texas were independent today it would be an even greater state and far richer than it is. In fact, I would move here tomorrow, and even wear a ten-gallon hat and date a cheerleader. But it was not to be. Like Britain in the EU, Texas is being slowly strangled by the socialist monster of DC.