The Alamo story and the war between the Mexico and the rebel Texans is so filled with myth and outright lies that any attempt to understand the story will almost always evoke rabid denials by those that have been brainwashed with Bowie and coonskin baloney. Recent research by Phillip Tucker, PhD, reveals that much of what has been told about the Alamo are racial inventions and fits into the category of “H.O. L.D-E (everything).” The letters in HOLD-E stand for Half-Truths, Omissions, Lies, Distortions, and Erasures. The Battle of the Alamo and the struggle of the slave-owner Texans have been told using the HOLD everything formula.
Half-Truths include the story concerning the movement to control Mexican lands by white settlers, which has all been misreported by historians that were either baffled, inadequate in research skills, or in the nastiest case purveyors of racist fabrication. Texas slave owners were fighting for freedom, but the question is freedom to do what? The other half of the truth that is not told is that Mexico abolished slavery and Texas settlers went wild when hearing that Mexico was no longer going to allow settlers and slaves to come into Mexico (Texas).
The omissions part involves facts that are omitted in that Alamo story that includes the fabrication that all of the Alamo defenders fought a courageous “last stand.” Dr. Tucker in his new book, “Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth” (2010) shows that the Alamo heroes did not die defending the Alamo walls to the last man is some sort of heroic fashion, but in fact many of them died running from the walls leaving some of their companions behind to die at the hands of Santa Anna’s troops. By the way, Santa Anna may not have been the only “bad guy” in this war as he also opposed slavery!
The Lies involved in the Alamo story are many, but historical documents mined by Dr. Tucker reveals that between sixty-two and sixty-eight men left the Alamo at the southeastern corner and headed in the direction of the Gonzalez Road (now East Commerce Street). According to Tucker’s research, they were ambushed by black Vera Cruz lancers in close proximity to the St. Paul Square area on present day East Commerce Street and near Ellis Alley. This is also a great omission in that these black lancers killed all of these runners, and the some fifty-two others that left out of the southwestern wall, seemingly trying to make it to safety toward Gonzalez, Texas.
The distortions that Alamo buffs claim include the idea that all of the defenders at the Alamo died inside the walls. Untrue! The slave owner defenders of the Alamo put up very little resistance because they were attacked in the middle of a strong cold front, and in the dark, and were caught napping or in the Alamo hospital where many lay as a result of wounds received in the earlier battle in December of 1835. They were only about 60 left to fight after most of them tried to escape. The “last stand” of 185 men never happened, and the majority of the Alamo defenders died beyond the walls and not inside in some poetic last stand. This would mean that generations have been told lies about the Alamo defenders, and it makes sense given the central reason for stealing Mexican lands in the first place was the issue of cotton and slavery. Many slave owners and their ancestors tried (and still try) to hide their connections to slavery. This is why very few people know that slave farms existed on the San Antonio River and on the Salado Creek. Black slave cemeteries are surely hidden along the Salado Creek and the San Antonio River. There may also be a slave burial ground near Semlinger and Rice Roads.
What was erased from history was the fact that slave owning interests were shocked and in total fear that the Mexico outlawed slavery and their lucrative cotton trade. This fear was made every more evident by the order of the black Mexican president Vicente Guerrero, who abolished slavery in 1829. Affluent white planters were enraged upon hearing that their system of slavery was in danger. Whites with less social status had also come to Texas in the hopes of getting rich in this environment after receiving land just for coming to Texas. Interestingly, according to this research the black lancers that killed the Alamo defenders that were on the run killed them with lances made and developed by black Moors, one of the ethnic groups that inhabited the eastern side of the San Antonio River since the arrival of the first Canary Islander families in the 1700s.
Tucker points out that the Battle of Alamo took only about thirty minutes to kill the few defenders abandoned inside, many of whom were ailing in their beds in the Alamo hospital, and about two and a half hours to kill those hopeful of escape. There is evidence to support the history that Colonel William Travis committed suicide and did not die a valiant death as depicted by Hollywood filmmakers and racist historians. Those that ran from the Alamo were killed and their bodies burned some four hundred yards away from the Alamo walls near what is now named Commerce Street and Bowie Streets. Tucker points out that there would have been no reason to transport over 100 bodies about a quarter of a mile away providing confirmation that they were killed while trying to flee near the spot of where their cadavers were destroyed by fire. Generally, after a battle bodies are buried in place and not carried any distance from the scene of the deaths. Over 100 Alamo defenders died outside the Alamo running in an eastward direction and this has been erased up until now! Next time someone thinks they know something about the Alamo, tell them HOLD everything!
