Alamo Defenders Didn’t Stand! They Ran!

In a new book just published by Phillip Tucker, PhD, titled “Exodus from the Alamo: The Anatomy of the Last Stand Myth,” the myths of the Alamo have finally been revealed in a straight forward no-joke narrative. Dr. Tucker reveals that most of the Anglo slavers that died at the Alamo did not in fact die inside the Alamo but all around it as many of the defenders fled from the walls of the Alamo and were killed in the woods while running away. This may be startling news for some, but is only confirmation for what many researchers already suspected. The majority of so-called Alamo heroes never died defending the walls of the Alamo, but were cut down by Mexican lancers on horseback as they ran from the Alamo to two main bodies. This was the result of being totally surprised in the pre-dawn attack and unable to mount a significant defense in the dark.
Using tons of factual source material, Dr. Tucker does major myth busting in relationship to the Alamo story. We were told over and over again, while growing up and even now, that the Alamo defenders staged a valiant “last stand” at the Alamo. This falsehood has been repeated over and over again as it had to be to support the dominant ideas of white supremacy during that period. When the ideas of white supremacy were clearly fastened to the mindset of Anglo Americans it became necessary to create stories that held up the ideas that whites were superior and therefore could not be defeated. The belief that God made white people superior was the propaganda of that era and myths were created to deny the fact that most of the Alamo died outside the walls of the Alamo while attempting to run away from the surprise attack by General Santa Anna that occurred before the sun came up on the morning of March 6, 1836. This pre-dawn raid completely caught the inexperienced Alamo defenders by surprise and forced them to run for their lives without being able to mount any real defense of the walls.
These facts completely destroy the Hollywood versions of the battle which depict the battle as taking place in the early morning hours. Through strong and convincing research the battle actually took place in the dark and most of the Alamo defenders were killed while running away from the Alamo after realizing that defense of the walls was impossible. According to Dr. Tucker, between 62 and 68 Alamo defenders ran out the southeastern side of the Alamo and headed east, possibly along what is now Commerce Street trying to make it to higher ground and set up a defensive position. Another group ran out of the Alamo near the southwestern corner, about 52 men, and they too were cut down by Mexican lancers on horseback. This explains why their corpses were burned approximately a quarter of a mile (about 400 yards) beyond the Alamo as their bodies were close to the present location of East Commerce and Bowie Street, or close to the present site of St Paul Square where they were chased and killed. This would have been kept a secret for as long as possible as the slave owning Alamo defenders would not have wanted to world to know that they ran and their bodies were burned close to site where they were killed. Their bodies would not have been dragged that far away from the site!
All of the witness stories that confirm this have been purposefully ignored and the myths carried on for over a hundred years. Dr. Tucker reported from an account in the San Antonio Express (San Antonio Daily Express as it was called in the 1800s) that of the 62 men that ran for their lives from the Alamo only one managed to fight back. Mexican lancer Manuel Loranca was “astonished by the swift destruction of the last of the 62 men.” According to Tucker, a “Colonel Almonte recorded in his journal how a large number of escapees ‘were overtaken and put to the sword.’”
Dr. Tucker notes that historians, and in my opinion racist historians, have overlooked and ignored the fighting that took place outside the walls “because that would be an admission of widespread flight.” Also of interest are reports that Colonel Travis most likely killed himself in the chaos. As panic set in the Alamo defenders that were left ran wildly in all directions trying to escape Mexican troops. More than a half-dozen witnesses verify that over 100 Alamo defenders ran from the Alamo and were killed outside the walls. This completely refutes the Daughters of the Republic version about some sort of “heroic last stand.” At least 100 men ran from that Alamo in a bid to save themselves from the order of Santa Anna to kill all of the whites and their sell-out Tejano allies. The flag that no one would be allowed to surrender was apparently raised at San Fernando Church in what is now downtown San Antonio, and the song that Mexican trumpets played was a Moorish (African) song that indicated the white slavers would be put to death. Very few blacks and Mexicans celebrate the Alamo because it was indeed a slave owner rebellion. Unfortunately, some Tejanos want the slave owners Jose Navarro and Juan Seguin to be honored for their service to a racist cause. But this comes from the propaganda that we have had to hear for decades.
Tucker goes on to discredit the myth that a thousand Mexican soldiers were killed by the Alamo defenders. The facts seem to indicate that a very small number of Mexicans were killed because they were mostly chasing running racialized whites. According to Tucker’s research only 100 Mexican were killed and 247 were wounded. This figure may actually be too high as some Mexican were killed by friendly fire, and the total number of Mexicans killed by whites would therefore be less than 100. The Alamo myths have fallen again! (The black star logo for these articles and other publications is used to symbolize looking below the surface, which hopefully will result in the demise of the symbolic white star of white supremacist interpretations of history).