@@AngelloDelNorte Cartels only rose to power when the land of the no-so-free decided to hundredfold profit on drugs by declaring a war they could not win. Before, the stuff cost about as much to grow as tobacco and it would only be worth smugling in huge quantities. Since it became illegal it has become profitable to smuggle a few grams. So anytime you feel like calling Mexico corrupt, just remember that corruption starts in the White House ...
@@sjonnieplayfull5859 USA white house? You make it sound like Mexico would get redeem if drugs were legal or something? Mexico is too far gone in general all because of its ppl ideologies.
@@anomalocaris3085 I like how Mexicans are reclaiming their land not by waging war but by replacing Americans with Hispanics. It does put a smile in my face. They had it coming for a while now.
Really true. Not anymore. I think because of the internet kids don’t have the same imagination we did. I could sit in a room for 6 hours playing with toya and using my imagination.
@Tyler Hodges before the US entered the first world war, Germany had sent out the "Zimmerman" telegram to Mexico to secretly form a pact and attack the US before they entering the war ( super scummy) but Mexico declined.
Yep, bit of historical revisionism going on here...Manifest Destiny and racism at its best. Texas was a part of Mexico - which their government had allowed to be settled by Anglos. Never give an American a centimetre or he'll take a kilometre (and won't know what you're talking about because they're the only ones still using Imperial...😂)
Around 1836, the Mexican province of Texas, was mainly inhabited by "illegal" US-American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico prohibited them from using slavery as a form of work, then the rebels had proposed to emancipate themselves from Mexico. To continue maintaining slavery, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, he had no right to separate. The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the US-American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was a poor army in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, the Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "US-Americans". So an armed conflict began between both parties that led to the secession of Texas. That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
Back when Mexico was patriotic, and tho they might have lost a few wars and struggle with the war on drugs I salute those brave Mexican soldiers who try there best to protect it's community
@UC6K6piJljWRoa0iM54aJTwg … he’s talking about modern Mexican soldiers trying to protect their community from drug lords. How about you try not to sound like a jagoff.
@@bnsf9814 You always hear the ten percent that shout loud, but remember: even when Trump's besties stormed the Capitol, more then 99% of all Americans were minding their own bussiness. Next time some moron calls you names, there were hundreds that day that did not. Have a good day
@@manuelzaragoza5010 They stopped using the Marines and army after the National Guard was formed. The Navy (Marines) is now only used in the most important missions which are the final capture of drug Lords.
@@anomalocaris3085 and Mexico let Americans populate Texas as a human shield against the Comanche. Once the Americans cleared it out and held it down, Mexico came back in and tried claiming as theirs. Read a book Hefe.
@@anomalocaris3085 the Comanche destroyed mexican missions and ranches, the Mexicans left Texas and New Mexico because they couldn't deal with the Comanche. Americans came, defeated the Comanche then Mexico wanted the land again. No sir, we didn't steal it we conquered it when Mexico couldn't.
@@kennethbedwell5188 - It wasn't the US army. They were a bunch of Texan civilians who took up arms in a local rebellion against the Mexican government, so most of them just wore their regular civilian clothing....although I think a few of them, such as Travis, did were something at least approximating an American military uniform. But they were not fighting on behalf of the USA government. They were launching an independent local rebellion on their own collective authority....so what they actually were was "rebels" against Mexican law. The Mexicans considered them to be about the same thing as "terrorists" in today's terms. However, they won in the end, after the Battle of San Jacinto, and founded the new republic of Texas. As we all know, the winners get to decide who "the good guys" are...after the fact.
@@georgecoventry8441 I didn’t say the US army was facing the Mexicans at this time. I was talking in general at this time in the 1820’s the US was a relatively poor nation and so the equipment of the military was the cheapest.
@@kennethbedwell5188- Ah, yes, you are quite right about that. Good point. The Europeans in particular had many hundreds of years behind them when it came to outfitting their troops with fine looking uniforms and equipment, while the USA was a newcomer in that respect.
Texas era de España. Nunca jamas ningun mexicano habia entrado ni se habia establecido en Texas, no seas paria , quien habia tenido a raya a apaches y comanches y habian tratado de llevarles la religion y las costumbres civilizadas fueron los españoles, nunca los mexicanos . Unos masones españoles, por su cuenta, decidieron dar la independencia a lo que llamaban Nueva España pero sin que los mexicanos hubieran entrado en Texas ( los españoles habian hecho poco antes una matanza de "texanos hispanos" que se habian sublevado contra los españoles, en la "batalla de Medina" , nunca ningun Azteca o similar habia estado en Texas . Pero los mexicanos tuvieron lo que se merecian: el primer acto en cuanto los españoles se fueron ( porque les dio la gana a los masones del gobierno español, no los habian derrotado ni expulsado los mexicanos ni nadie) suponiendose dueños de Texas, fue "anular todos los titulos de propiedad de tierras" que habian dado los españoles en Texas...esto cabreó a los texanos, muchos de origen español o de origen anglo o norteamericano pero que se habian establecido en Texas cuando era de soberania española...y se la tenian guardada a los mexicanos: ese fue el origen de la sublevacion de los texanos contra Mexico, parece que los mexicanos se habian hecho el proposito de quitar los titulos de propiedad de tierras dados por españoles y entregar esas tierras a colonos mexicanos que pasarian desde rio Bravo: los texanos les expulsaron de mala forma igual que habian entrado de mala forma : donde mas odio de todo el planeta se tiene a España y a los españoles es en Mexico, borrego , no en Texas
Texas declared independence from Mexico just like how Mexican declared independence from Spain. So in other words when Texas became a independent nation Mexicans were invading them since it wasn't Mexico at that point. I thought someone from Spain would've know this but I guess not.
@@AngelloDelNorte In a strictly legal sense, Texas was a property of Spain until December 1836, when Spain relinquished its sovereignty over the former "Nueva España."
The site where they filmed this is still standing, though no longer open to the public. It's called Alamo Village outside Bracketville, Texas. The site was used for many movies, tv shows, music videos, and reenactments. I went there many times as a child. So many warm memories running around pretending to be Crockett against an entire army.
And that second Alamo movie, the one Billy Bob Thornton in 2004, was filmed near Dripping Springs, TX. That site no longer exists. It was destroyed in a wild fire resulting from a lightning strike. And what was left was torn down. It also sat on private ranch land, but was never opened to the public. The folks who owned the land didn't want to take out liability insurance for anyone getting hurt going through the structures.
Interesting fact John Wayne's Alamo was built to scale of the original measurements of the real Alamo. So it puts into perspective on how much the 180 something defenders had to defend. I recommend reading blood of noble men which is a full documented account of the day bay day actions during the 13 day siege of the Alamo. The more you read it they more you realize just how hopeless their situation truly was. The documentation of the final assault on March sixth just makes it even more sad for both sides.
Damn it's always nice to watch those old war-movies, when they had real men acting as soldiers, not the modern CGI-BULL... Their capacity to mobilize hundreds or even thousands of men was stunning. We'll never see again movies like this one or..."Zulu" or "Waterloo" - "War and Peace" - "SPARTACUS" (just few examples)...
But they are so unrealistic. These wars were way more bloody and gruesome. This looks like a walk in the park compared to what it was really like. Espessially the way they dramatically fall when they die.
@@interestingusername1049 I agree! The Billy Bob Thornton depiction of Crockett was far mor believable, I did enjoy the Wayne version, when I saw it first when I was about ten years old.
This wasn't invasion. Texas did belong to Mexico, and this was taken place during the Texas Revolution. Texas Revolution consisting of Americans (desiring to be annexed by the USA) and Mexicans (Federalist sympathies against the Centralist government), and they broke away from Mexico. General Santa Anna, the Commander and Chief of all of Mexico, personally led troops to crush the rebellion. The Alamo was occupied by the Texas Revolitionaries, but they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. The Texian Army commander, Sam Houston, ordered for the cannons in the Alamo to be removed. This is no invasion.
Tejas no pertenecía a México y eso no lo cuenta la SEP. Tejas dejó de ser parte de la Nueva España para 1803....Búscate el tratado Adam Onis que deja en claro que Tejas ya no era de la nueva España para 1803...los españoles la separaron y se la vendieron a gringolandia en 1819...para ese entonces México no existía sino hasta Septiembre de 1821. Iturbide en Febrero de 1821 dio la orden de tomar Tejas y esta cae en manos militares mexicanas en Diciembre de 1821 derrotando al ejercito yankee comandados por un tal James Long y en 1832 México obliga a EUA a reconocer que Tejas es ahora de México... Luego Tejas se independiza y México la invade en una reconquista por segunda vez...a poco no suena bien....México conquistador en vez del lastimero que todos ustedes defienden a capa y espada. México ganó el 90 % de todas las batallas que se dieron en Tejas y tampoco no las enseñan. La única que perdió México fue la de San Jacinto con la que pierde Tejas y no hubo derrota humillante para el ejercito mexicano...sino más bien a Santa ANNA le pasaron el cheque por debajo y se encuentra con Sam Huston y se abrazan el abrazo de la traición. Hay muchas cosas que el pueblo de México desconoce. Ningún país se salva de ser conquistado y conquistador. México conquisto militarmente tres territorios que no nos enseñan y prefieren enseñarnos una historia falsa de empinados y violados y que pobrecitos de los mexicanos. Hacen una castración ideológica.
I’d like to add that the massacre at La Bahia in Goliad contributed more to rebel sentiments and desire for independence than the Alamo. No, Mexico cannot invade its own territory, as Texas was at this time. However, let’s not forget that Mexico won its independence from Spain barely 14 years before these events. American immigrants to Texas refused to become confessing Catholics, among other grievances, and eventually the sentiments became a war cry for Texas independence.
@Jonathan Williams and I referenced the Tejanos by calling them the Federalists. There were Federalists vs Centralists. Mexican Federalists referring also to the other revolts across Mexico.
For those wondering, this is from the John Wayne 1950's (?) 'The Alamo'. Also starring Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, and Laurence Harvey as Col. Travis.
Wayne filmed in 1959, released in 1960. The scenes after the ad break though, are from the 2004 version of The Alamo, which starred Billy Bob Thornton.
@@aventuratamovil5233 Rectificación: Antes ERA España. Es decir, territorio nacional. No como los ingleses que para ellos serian colonias. Las 13 colonias que luego fueron USA con sus mismas ansias de conquista, explotación y exterminio racista.
I did not realize they had video back then. It is nice to be able to see the actual, real battle instead of needing to wonder if the battle really happened like in the movie.
I love how well the 1960 version portrayed the Mexican (Santa Anna’s) Army! They would have had very bright, colorful uniforms and tactics that seemed eerily familiar to Napoleon’s, due to Santa Anna being a great admirer of his, said to demand people refer to him as “Napoleon of the West”. However, they also don’t suck the cool-aid out of the Mexicans’ junks!: Despite being a national army, they were still a bunch of poorly trained and supplied conscripted peasants fighting for a dictator that had only been in power a couple of years! I love how the battle shows the superior marksmanship of the Texians, and shows them laying waste to the Mexicans in a straight fight, only falling under weight of numbers, a costly tactic that would soon cost Santa Anna the entire war!
@@marthagomez7335 No, you’re wrong, dummy! Seriously though, all the Mexican Revolutionary War veterans were freaking dead during the Texas Revolution, man! Shortly after Mexican Independence, one warlord, President and Emperor after another took power; some of them were Revolutionary veterans, others were former loyalists! All the veterans were dead because, sooner or later, most factions were removed from power and purged. Santa Anna himself was a rare breed of rebel leader that survived the chaotic periods but all his men were conscripted peasants! The country was so broke that many of these Mexican soldiers had to wear sandals… in Texas, during the winter… when many of them were seeing snow for the first time in their lives!
@@marthagomez7335 first and foremost I'm talking about the American army not the Texans army (Texas still kicked Mexico ass though lol) Next yes we know Mexicans are "Americans" but not by name just by continent give it up with that shit is so annoying and America Is part of north America as well Next that just means the Mexican army and Santa Anna was an idiot for sleeping and underestimating the Texans Army what you call cowardly is just being smart and and using Lighting tactics to beat a numerically Superior opponent so duh that's the only way And what does me being Mexican have to do with anything? I'm American by birth and proud to be an American this country raised me along with my family and it gave me a home and a life my loyalty lies with the United States of America not Mexico I'm proud of my heritage as a American Born Mexican but not loyal to mexico also really? Gringo? Just stop it's annoying to hear that word spat out by nationalistic idiots from Mexico it makes you look like fools Viva los Americanos, viva los Estados unidos
@@samuela.botello2881 I will never be able to hide the fact that I’m Mexican. I will never be Anglo and wouldn’t want to be. If I lived in those days. I would have asked Santanna to please give me a rifle and ammo to shoot at the shameless invaders. That is why they came. To rob , kill and destroy, exactly like the evil one. El diablo. It’s there in the Bible, read it
Actually this is mostly historically accurate. Many of the newer raised units just before the invasion were given all white uniforms. The majority of Mexican infantry wore a dark blue tunic, no infantry unit wore red but many cavalry units did.
nah bro, they were unorganized and had just fought off spain, they had barely any organization, uniform, and other things that make an army professional, it was mostly a militia. Also, the first cannon shot was by the Texans.
@@Leo7s1822Tthe units that emerged directly from the Spanish militias and the guard units did have a uniform Although yes, the rest of the army was a levy and many did not have a uniform, that depended on which region the levy came from. This of the uniforms was not really noticeable during the campaign against texas, if not in the war against the united states
Man this battle is actually hectic. First it had two american legends who fought in it and died in it (and i mean they were legends before this happened) and next this one single battle can be track back to be a direct cause of many things. With this battle Sam Houston is able to rally a force to defeat Santa Anna, in doing so creating the republic of Texas, then when the republic becomes an American state it tips the scales on pro slavery vs anti slavery in regards to what states are which, which leads to certain compromises which further divide the nation...but wait there is more, with its acceptance into the US this causes upset to Mexico as the US claims a vast swathe of territory west of Texas in New Mexico and California, leading to The Mexican-American war of the late 1840s, and all of this can be traced back to 186 men all dying in a run down mission, in a southern part of Texas.
David Crockett was a coward who wanted to go AWOL......true fact BTW. Just like a certain future POTUS who faked bone spurs, was a cocaine addict in the 80's, was a bankrupt failed businessman, and is a adderall addict who can't drink water with his Adolf Hitler shaky left hand.
This movie is a great comedy, it shows the Mexican soldiers, like the villains, mistreating the defenseless Texans, when in reality, the Mexicans, were only defending the territorial integrity of their country, Texas was a Mexican territory, that I remember, When the United States annex, I use Texas to maintain SLAVERY, abolished in Mexico since the time of independence. Hollywood because you don't tell the truth.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873 "This movie is a great comedy"- I suppose you can look at a representation of all those deaths as funny. You do you man. "mistreating the defenseless Texans"- Well in part they were. The campaign of Anna here was to remove all settlers of the area, illegal and legal. The new Mexican government and Anna feared the amount of white settlers brought in by the previous government would topple their control, so they set about to remove them. "Mexicans, were only defending the territorial integrity of their country,"- That is it i suppose. Why they did it and did it need to happen are not as simple. "Texas was a Mexican territory"- It was. The area itself went through many changes but it basically remained Mexican territory up until 1848. As the republic was never officially acknowledged by Mexico, so Mexico never saw it as nothing but an independent part of their country. " I use Texas to maintain SLAVERY, abolished in Mexico since the time of independence."- What? I don't understand. The slavery issue was never a big thing after it happened in the 1820's. The Alamo was 1836 and the war was 1846, so what do you mean? The only thing i would add was Mexico as a villain. Anna was a bad guy. His order for this campaign was every white settler be branded a pirate, which means they could kill as many as they wanted and whoever they wanted. Anna wasn't great and the Americans were the ones sticking up for themselves whilst their opponent was pushing them out.
Yes and also see America becoming an 'Imperialist' power by land grabbing from Mexico. Admittedly her future Imperialism is of a more covert nature but virtually every country in Latin America has suffered, and Worldwide.
@@tobyoneil1969 haha keep lying to yourself, but Santa Ana was a terrible dictator. Most of Mexico was fighting him, not only texas. My ancestor fought in the Alamo and he was Mexican. The people in the álamo were actually pissed that Santa changed the constitution of Mexico. They even had a flag with the date of the original constitution.
The land of Texas was Mexican territory. The defenders of the Alamo were actually rebels, they had been given land grants by the Mexicans if they farmed the land and became Roman Catholic. Travis had been ordered by his superior Sam Houston to abandon the Alamo Mission as he knew it was indefensible. He remained at the Alamo to force the rebel army's hand, to attack General Santa Anna army, they were not ready and if their untrained army had taken the field at that time they would have been defeated by Santa Anna's Mexican Army. The Almo Mission had no strategic importance and if Jim Bowie had not been incapacitated by illness, possibly cholera, at the time he would have overruled Travis as he was vastly more experienced in military matter. Davie Crocket was a failure as a politician in the U.S. he had failed in every venture he had tried, he was an adventurer trying his last throw of the dice to become rich. The myth of his John Wayne like death was debunked years ago as a diary was found from a contemporary diary kept by a Mexican Soldier who took part saying that they had caught him and others trying to sneak out of the Misson before the final attack and they were executed by firing squad. Sam Houston was also an adventurer, a failed U.S. Politician, a drunk and a person who I would not have trusted. Jim Bowie was also not a trustworthy man , he had burnt his boats in the U.S. due to his fraudulent land speculation activities and run in with the law. The war succeed against the Mexican Government was because the General Santa Anna was incompetent and the empty promises that they had made to the Spanish speaking inhabitants that their land grants given years before by the Spanish would be honoured, that was a lie as the triumphant Texas newcomers from the U.S. took their land from them and indulged in ethnic cleansing to remove them from their land. They became a disenfranchised underclass in Texas.
All true and these facts and all facts should be in everyone's history books. Mexico is to blame too and all facts should be written. The true inhabitants were the american Indians
@@colehall2209 Whether Santa Anna was good or bad he was the leader of Mexico, the immigrants from the U.S had made a contract with that government, to become citizens , Roman Catholics , and improve the land. What they wanted was to bring the practice of slavery that they had in the U.S, the country they had left. This was unacceptable to the Mexican Government. Santa Anna ignored land grants given by the Spanish Government before Mexican independence, giving the land title to the new immigrants from the U.S was a bone of convention with Mexican land owners in the area , who fought on the behalf of the rebels in the belief that the newcomers would honour those rights, they did not after their win they forced them off the land. In addition the newcomers wanted a slave economy, to replicate the plantation society they had left behind.
It's funny when people think their intelligent when they're not. 😂 Crockett's death has not been debunked. The first thing you need to educate yourself with is to look up Susanna Dickinson, the lady depicted in every Alamo movie, read what she says about Davy Crockett, she actually knew him. Next, that De La Pena diary you're trying to reference was murdered on the street; he hated Santa Anna and it's believed he wrote that to illustrate Santa Anna's cruelty. A brain should tell you how strange it is that no one talked to that prisoner referenced as Crockett, hmmm, why would that be? Also, Americans took Texas, so? Where else would illegal Mexicans run to get away from Mexico?
@@antoniostark4194 well millions of mexican americans live in Texas. So you might find they fight against you because they will have a much better chance at success if they are a part of america, rather than Mexico. Besides Mexico only formed as a result of Spain being colonists. So Mexico is the same as america and how they took land, my friend.
The reason why the Mexicans appeared to be outgunned at the beginning even though clearly having more men is because the Mexicans were equipped with brown bess muskets which were ineffective at longer ranges. The texians had sharpshooter rifles so they had the initial advantage.
people also forget how far away Texas and San Antonio is from Mexico (the populated part at that time) most of the Mexican troops were NOT soldiers but forced conscripts from the provinces they picked up along the way, and who did not care or want to be a part of this, just like most Texans (or whatever word you want to use) did not really support independence.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas. Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810. Mexico land of racial equality.
I remember watching this when I was little it was so intense it was the first war movie I’d seen and it was awesome. Although for 6 year old me The blood was a bit much even though it looked pink and unrealistic lol
The Mexican assault began around 3:30-4:00 am on March 6. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns were over the north wall before the alarm was sounded. A good portion of the Texian defenders bolted from the Alamo; heading through a gate at the palisade near the chapel. An estimated 60-70 tried to flee in the direction of the Gonzales road and were run down and killed by waiting Mexican cavalry. Most of the rest were slain in brief, hand-to-hand encounters in the Long barracks and the Artillery barracks across the plaza. There is some evidence that as many as eight men did escape from the Alamo, though only one or two who were slightly wounded lived for any time.
Furthermore, it is believed Davey Crockett surrendered with a handful of other men ... who were then all put to death. In the case of it being a night assault, filming it with 1960's technology would have been difficult so I understand and accept the variation done for the film audiences' sake. Likewise, I am unsure if Mr. Wayne knew about the men who tried to escape the death trap which was the Alamo. Much of the information was discovered, or believed, later in the 20th century. All and all, I like the film despite these irregularities.
Texians did achieve a good 3-1 K/D ratio. Mexicans got to practice the their executioning and murdering before Goliad. Texans got to practice their K/D ratio before San Jacinto.
@@NotOurRemedy From most of the contemporary evidence, the majority of Mexican losses were due to friendly fire in the darkness and the confusion after the assault columns gained entry to compound. The Texians were plagued by a shortage of good powder; they didn't, with the exception of Crockett's small group, have good muskets or rifles. The majority were armed with shotguns, pistols, and long guns more suitable for hunting game. The only cannon the defenders fired were the two 12-pounders of Captain Dickenson, that were used to try and give cover to the group of defenders that were fleeing toward the Gonzales road. The first Mexican columns were ordered NOT to load their weapons, and use the bayonet. The following assault formations did load their weapons and this is where the friendly fire incidents occurred.
@@NotOurRemedy What David said. Plus the Mexicans were attacking a fortifed position. It's a given that the defenders will lose more men than the defenders. That's just how battles work. Attackers need more men to beat the defenders because they'll likely lose more men.
Gotta give props to the older Alamo movie for really showing the fort just get blown to absolute bits by the Mexican artillery, there were probably explosions going off right up to when the walls were breached.
Fun fact some of those Texans or Tejans weren't Texan, some where from Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts and other states but where declared Texas heroes. You can find their flags in the Alamo museum
But that's what they did the lost territory in the Mexican American war and wanted some back and they Could not fight the USA agian so they attacked texas
@@LiquidSoggyBread When the events recreated in this movie happened, the Repúblic of Texas didn't exist yet. México never invaded the independent Texas.
The battle at the Alamo was Feb 23, 1836 thru Mar 6, 1836. The Republic of Texas was established Mar 2, 1836. The 1st President was sworn in Mar 16, 1836.
Que dices wey? ?. Someone could post the same but in spanish jajaja. Anyway I only say like SpongeBob Squarepants and Patrick: who wants the dumb old Texas.
This version of the Alamo is the most historically inaccurate movie ive ever seen, but that doesn't stop it from being totally bad ass. If you want a more historically accurate battle of the Alamo watch the 2004 movie under the title "The Alamo" it's way more historically accurate. However if you want a totally bad ass battle scene which makes you want to pull off your clothing, pull on a New Orleans's Grey's uniform and grab your Kentucky Rifle while screaming "No step in snek" please do watch on.
The General of the Mexican forces (Santa Anna) is the SAME guy we can thank for chewing gum. He brought Chicle from South America to New York City to try and sell it as a coating for buggy wheels. His aide thought up a better use as chewing gum. Believe or not. And that was LONG after this battle!
Interesting. But chicle es actually from the jungles of Southern Mexico and Central America. The word derives form "sicte yá" which means mouth movement in maya.
John Wayne's "The Alamo" was an exciting movie, but historical accuracy went completely out the window. For one thing, the final attack began about 3:00 am, while it was still completely dark. By the time sunrise had occurred, the fighting was over. In the confusing mele, the Mexicans probably shot as many of their own men as the Alamo's defenders did.
it's called a movie.....most historical epics are only partly factual....does it matter? I mean, if you want near 100% accuracy then go see a documentary....movies have a tight time frame, star power, marks to hit, emotion/tension to build etc etc......it was an awesome movie, a classic
@@fabianpatrizio2865 See the new one a bit more accurate and the final assault takes place at night as it did and it also show that there were Mexican inside the Alamo as defenders
@@damiansaucedo9951 The scene could still have been presented as occurring at night by placing filters over the camera lens for the "Day for Night" effect. It was a common movie practice of the day. Related to the final assault scene of "The Alamo", the Mexican Army was depicted giving the Alamo's defenders everything short of an engraved invitation in signaling their intentions. In reality, the final early morning assault was carried out with stealth; the Mexicans were almost at the Alamo's walls when they were detected by the by-now exhausted lookouts and the alarm was sounded. The confusion of the darkness slowed the attack enough to give time for the Alamo's defenders to man their defenses.
They really stood no chance. The Alamo was huge (compared to what everyone see’s today.) and even the recreated Alamo for the 2004 movie was still only about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the original. They didn’t have the manpower and even if all of San Houston’s men had been there, they still wouldn’t have had the manpower to defend it. They were spaced so far apart (regardless of what this shows) they couldn’t cover each others firing arcs.
Lol you're right, these rebel is just American (mostly) immigrant migrated into Mexican-held Texas, and then proclaimed to be independent and later annexed by USA.
Whats funny about this is I live in L.A. and go to Tijuana all the time so I have a lot of Mexican Mexicans as friends. The mexican half of my family is all from Texas, so when they ask where in Mexico my Mexican side of the family is from I say Texas, then they say thats not Mexico. SO then we have to have a whole history lesson on the subject if my family is mexican or not haha
@@tacoguy764 Please explain how Mexicans are Americans. Americans are citizens of USA. Mexicans are citizens of Mexico. How can someone who is not a citizen of Mexico be Mexican?
@@tacoguy764 That is not accurate. The United States and Mexico are located in North America. America is used as a short version of the United States of America.
I visited the Alamo last year and was surprised to hear how savage and murderess the Texans were. If the didn’t died at the Alamo they in modern times would have been charged with war crimes. Too bad some folks think they are hero’s.
Crimes to us but at the time there was no such thing. Texan frontiersman/ Texas Rangers pre annexation by the USA were some tough motherfuckers. Not motivated by money they just wanted adventure. Yes they committed many atrocities but so did the people they fought. Compared to what Comanches did while raiding it was pretty tame.
@@adrianryan5609 I meant before the USA annexed Texas. Which was done peacefully. I’m not defending the actions of anyone. It was a different time and I don’t think it’s fair to hold them to the same standard that we set for ourselves today.
Texas rose up against the Mexican Republic, balkanized by US-American immigrants to continue maintaining a system of labor based on SLAVERY, Mexico had abolished slavery since independence.
Ojalá que así de elegante, equipado, preparado y organizado hubiese sido el ejército mexicano de aquella época. La realidad es que la mayoría eran campesinos analfabetos, reclutados a la fuerza por la leva sin ningún tipo de entrenamiento militar, muchos hasta descalzos andaban...
@Alexis Caselis You for real? Well that would help explain how that despite outnumbering the Americans and winning the Mexicans still lost more soldiers. Son of the Morning Star portrays Custer’s Last Stand as an epic final battle where Custer is one of the last to be killed. In reality I guarantee it wasn’t as exciting as how the film portrayed it and Custer was apparently one of the first to be killed according to various accounts.
Spain gave up its claim to Florida and in exchange the US gave up its claim to what is now Texas. The Spanish empire collapsed and Mexico became its own country. Mexico was having trouble with Comanche raids in what is now Texas, so they allowed people from the Louisiana Territory to come live there. Too many northerners started moving into Texas so Mexico abolished slavery and raised taxes to discourage more settlers. The Texians revolted so Mexico sent an army to reclaim its territory. This led to the Battle of the Alamo. So this was actually the theft of Mexican land. The US eventually invaded the entire southwest and California. It was totally unjust theft, but in the end we the descendants are much better off being part of the US than Mexico.
To be fair, the Texicans were in revolt against Santa Anna's regime, not out to form their own Republic when things began. They only settled on a Republic when it became clear how outmatched they were. They couldn't never beat Santa Anna's other armies so the accepted independence for their slice of Mexico instead. That is why the flag has '1824' on it - for the Mexican Constitution of 1824, which Santa Anna had cast down and the Texicans were fighting to restore. The Mexican-American War was a rather different matter. That pretty much an unjust land theft.
@@jamesdosher2057 The theft of the South West by the US was nothing more than a country with superior military power invading a neighbor. My ancestors in New Mexico revolted in Santa Fe and were captured and hung by the US military. Fast forward to 1941-1945. If the US did not exist with sufficiently large population, resources and fortitude to defend itself, the world would be a very different place, and we would probably be speaking German or Japanese!!! So even though the details on how the US was created are unsettling, we the descendants are better off. My ancestors fought and died in WWII to preserve the country we have today. I am grateful for the country we have regardless of how it came into existence. That is why I won't partake in criticizing our history. We simply don't know what the outcome would have been.... conditions in our country could easily be much worse than they are today.
The US supported the independence of Texas because it was the way that they could integrate Texas and then just a war with México and BOOM the manifest destiny is complete, it's just pure imperialism.
This is so badly edited it boggles the mind. When I first started watching, I thought I'd finally found the best clip ever of the last battle from John Wayne's epic. Only a few minutes into it, my hopes were dashed in realizing it couldn't be shared to my Facebook group. What a shame!
Interesting fact. Of all the people (who's nationality/ state is known) more Britons fought at the Alamo than Texans. Britons were the single largest contingent.
@@Dawsonguidroz8538 Ah you said almost so John Wayne saved the day but its just a shame he is not alive today to do the same in films to make America look great as the are the laughing stock of the world with Creepy Biden in control the man who likes to sniff little girls and talk dirty in their ears.
Erick of course they were it happened to b still Mexico 🇲🇽 not Texas, the Mexican army lost a lot of young soldiers which weakened Santa Ana chances to win 🤔 so n a way the texans were able to defeat him & the men at the alamo were successful n creating problems for him 😉
Ever notice there are typically 6 men manning the cannon in a scene? There were 18 operating cannon at the time of battle. In all probability each cannon was manned by 3 As the number defending the Alamo is reported between 180-220 using the median of 200 would indicate nearly 25% of the defenders were manning cannon leaving approximately 150 to defend the walls. This number would be lower as the hospital had many beds filled. Alamo movies show many more riflemen defenders than there actually were.
0:33 defenders are shown way too tightly packed together -- there's almost 40 manning that short section of wall (in two rows no less), leaving about 145 to man the entire rest of the perimeter. But I guess they wanted to make it look good.
The final assault was actually at early dawn, the Soldados formed in silence before the sun was up. The defenders had pre-loaded muskets stacked against the walls. Each gun (artillery) had two men to operate it because one of them had to hold his thumb over the vent wile sponging and ramming the round. It was a mean, bloody fight. But both sides knew what was happening, the Texanos knew that they would all be killed on the last day and they did whatever they could to kill as many of their assailants as possible, including waving white flags from the barracks and then shooting the Soldados that approached to take their surrender. But there is a very important point here. The Tejanos were fighting as Mexican citizens under the flag of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, It is likely that the defenders, except for Crockett's recently arriving contingent, spoke Spanish with each other. They did not know Texas had declared independence. That took place at Washington-on-the-Brazos far away and three days before the Alamo fell. They were fighting as Mexicans for Mexican rights against a tyrant.
One thing that we tend to forget is that these were were just regular guys no more different than you and me who were thrusted into a terribly hopeless situation. They took a calculated risk when Santana and his army appeared out of nowhere on march 23 catching them completely by supersize. They had a choice to try run away and all be rundown by the cavalry or hold up in the Alamo and try to last ass long as possible until reinforcements could arrive. They calculated wrong and they paid for it wit their lives. I'm not down playing their courage at all far from it. I'm just putting this in perspective because we can only speculate what was their thought process, because of the simple but very critically important fact is that we were not there. We do not know what it was really like, how the conditions were during the 13 days and the siege did not happen instantly as the Mexican army took several days to incurcle the Alamo, set up their camps well out or the range of the Alamo's guns, then they had to set up their siege batteries of artillery which were four of five positions which had to be place far enough away where the Alamo cannon could not just blast away at them but, they could not set the artillery so far away that the cannon balls would have no effect on the Alamo's walls, on to of that the army had to set pickets or little outpost rining around the army to protect them from any enemy forces coming to reinforce that Alamo. Travis, Bowie, Crockett, captain Dickinson, Bohnan and a few other officers were fully aware of how hopeless their situation was as they were the ones to learn of information happening well beyond Sanantonio. They kept the information to them selves and what information they did let circulate was well down played for the moral of the men. At some point Travis, Bowie, Crockett, captain Dickinson, Bohnan and a few other officers had to have come to the conclusion that nobody was coming or if any one was coming they would most likely not come in time before the final assault. When Travis finally did tell the defenders how hopeless their situation was. There were only three options, surrender and be killed, slip over the wall in the night and take their chances in the dark, or stay in the Alamo and have a fifty fifty chance of living for dieing. Non of these choice are desirable but, I like most of them would probably take the fifty fifty chance of staying in the Alamo as they were far more likely to survive in the walls. Even after Travis told the men that no one was coming many of the defenders probably believed that help was coming right up to the moment that they were being bayoneted to death. I want to restate again that I'm not down playing their courage at all far from it. I'm just putting this all in perspective as best I can
Thrilling, how close this is to the battles between the Germanic tribes and Rome. The societal structures of the Germanic and Romantic worlds never changed between Teutoberg and Alamo.
used to be, Until mexico brought in Protestant american immigrants to settle in lands that were frequently raided by native american tribes. After a while the mexicans began trying to get rid of the protestant americans for various reasons, which resulted in tensions rising between the two until the Americans rebelled due to heavily increased taxation and a ban on any more protestant immigrants. Mexico fought its own short term civil war, in which the rebelling mexican faction led by Santa anna emerged victorious. the texans rebelled against santa annas government not long afterwards and won their war of independence.
Around 1836, the Mexican province of Texas, was mainly inhabited by "illegal" US-American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico prohibited them from using slavery as a form of work, then the rebels had proposed to emancipate themselves from Mexico. To continue maintaining slavery, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, he had no right to separate. The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the US-American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was a poor army in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, the Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "US-Americans". So an armed conflict began between both parties that led to the secession of Texas. That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
@@andresmora5192 they dont tell it as they tell so much other BS about the US history. It would not sound so "heroic" if the dumb, average us citizen would know the truth.
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I wonder ? back when this movie was made, they did not have the finale attack, has what really happened ? in the early morning as it was in the new Alamo movie.
@@palious13 It was 13 days i believe and Mexican casualties are estimated between 200-500 of an attacking force of 2000 and almost immediately afterwards the rest of the Mexican army was routed by a Tennessee militia and Santa Anna was found hiding in the grass. Never forget a hand full of men (and some women) of different ethnicity (white, Mexican and native american) came together to hold off a run down fort to secure a life for themselves and hold back a dictator bent on expanding his already large empire.
@@victoryoneable They secured the mission to act as a holding ground for Texas territory, something that itself was trying to be secured by many for a 'new life'. So yeah, they secured it for themselves, regardless of the fact they failed. Are you specifically talking about the word 'secured' and how that means it should not have failed?
There was very little left and most of it was built over as the city grew. I grew up in San Antonio, and it is interesting how so many people now are so vested in the event and unwilling to note the complexities of Mexican and Texas history.
I was driving from the border to san Antonio and the amount of miles this Mexican soldiers had to walk just to fight was unbelievable
You mean: the amount of land Mexico lost because of that war is incredable... Back then this was a frontier fort
from san luis potosí to san Antonio,long distance
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You mean: The country that's run by dictator-like society and cartels lost territories? How terrible...
@@AngelloDelNorte Cartels only rose to power when the land of the no-so-free decided to hundredfold profit on drugs by declaring a war they could not win. Before, the stuff cost about as much to grow as tobacco and it would only be worth smugling in huge quantities. Since it became illegal it has become profitable to smuggle a few grams.
So anytime you feel like calling Mexico corrupt, just remember that corruption starts in the White House ...
@@sjonnieplayfull5859
USA white house? You make it sound like Mexico would get redeem if drugs were legal or something? Mexico is too far gone in general all because of its ppl ideologies.
The Mexicans invading mexico?
Thats a new level of invasion
The Americans invaded USA last month. This ain't new.
Tejas Hispana y mexicana
@@anomalocaris3085 I like how Mexicans are reclaiming their land not by waging war but by replacing Americans with Hispanics. It does put a smile in my face. They had it coming for a while now.
Texas took the territory from them
That land was occupied by Apache and Comanche. Mexicans stole it first then claimed victim
Parents: aww look out our kids playing!
The kids imagination:
Omg so true haha
I had Alamo themed army men as a kid so this is accurate
Lol
Tenemos mentes demoníacas jajaja
Really true. Not anymore. I think because of the internet kids don’t have the same imagination we did. I could sit in a room for 6 hours playing with toya and using my imagination.
As one politician said in those days: "Poor Mexico! How far from God you are, and how close to the United States!"
Украине тоже так думают, в отношении россии😁
Porfirio Diaz
United States loves drugs from Mexico lol
Russian use this too？
hasta la fecha/ till the date
Germany would have loved to see this in 1914
@Tyler Hodges Zimmerman Telegraph , Germany tried to convince Mexico to invade the US so they wouldn’t join WW1
@Tyler Hodges before the US entered the first world war, Germany had sent out the "Zimmerman" telegram to Mexico to secretly form a pact and attack the US before they entering the war ( super scummy) but Mexico declined.
They Still wouldve got that smoke
Do you know how ridiculous you sound?!
@@silkytoilet9775 bruh what
Wrong wording, Texas was not yet a Republic during battle of the Alamo.
Shut it Mexican or we take more land from ya.
Yep, bit of historical revisionism going on here...Manifest Destiny and racism at its best. Texas was a part of Mexico - which their government had allowed to be settled by Anglos. Never give an American a centimetre or he'll take a kilometre (and won't know what you're talking about because they're the only ones still using Imperial...😂)
@@MightyCousintube-fg4jf shut up you gringo ... Just wait, we are taking it back in slow process, have you look around in Texas they speak spanish.
Around 1836, the Mexican province of Texas, was mainly inhabited by "illegal" US-American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico prohibited them from using slavery as a form of work, then the rebels had proposed to emancipate themselves from Mexico.
To continue maintaining slavery, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, he had no right to separate.
The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the US-American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was a poor army in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, the Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "US-Americans".
So an armed conflict began between both parties that led to the secession of Texas.
That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
@@andresmora5192 But at the end texas benefited being part of the US
Rather be part of the US then be part of Mexico
Back when Mexico was patriotic, and tho they might have lost a few wars and struggle with the war on drugs I salute those brave Mexican soldiers who try there best to protect it's community
Mexicans are very patriotic and are working hard to fight the druglords in their country, Im from Texas and I love Mexico
@UC6K6piJljWRoa0iM54aJTwg … he’s talking about modern Mexican soldiers trying to protect their community from drug lords. How about you try not to sound like a jagoff.
Thanks im a mexican you arent like the other people what hate people thanks
@@bnsf9814 You always hear the ten percent that shout loud, but remember: even when Trump's besties stormed the Capitol, more then 99% of all Americans were minding their own bussiness. Next time some moron calls you names, there were hundreds that day that did not.
Have a good day
Lets go Brandon!
Mexican army is fancier than I thought.
You mean "was"
@@taino-sr2vy Yeah they have a lot of problems today and they gotta use most of their army to battle drug lords
@@sgtjackles They don't even use their army against drug cartels. They use the National Guard
@@dreel37 no , we use both :mexican army , navy and national guard
@@manuelzaragoza5010 They stopped using the Marines and army after the National Guard was formed. The Navy (Marines) is now only used in the most important missions which are the final capture of drug Lords.
2020: Dolphins are returning to the Mediterranean .
Meanwhile in Texas:
Texas su origen español es tejas
@@anomalocaris3085 and Mexico let Americans populate Texas as a human shield against the Comanche. Once the Americans cleared it out and held it down, Mexico came back in and tried claiming as theirs. Read a book Hefe.
Los españoles respetaban más a los comanches que los angos
Y los americanos robaron Texas a México
@@anomalocaris3085 the Comanche destroyed mexican missions and ranches, the Mexicans left Texas and New Mexico because they couldn't deal with the Comanche. Americans came, defeated the Comanche then Mexico wanted the land again. No sir, we didn't steal it we conquered it when Mexico couldn't.
Gotta say the Mexican army sure looked colorful and well dressed
That was pretty much typical of professional armies at that time in history.
The only reason the US army was all one color was because of how poor the country was at that time.
@@kennethbedwell5188 - It wasn't the US army. They were a bunch of Texan civilians who took up arms in a local rebellion against the Mexican government, so most of them just wore their regular civilian clothing....although I think a few of them, such as Travis, did were something at least approximating an American military uniform. But they were not fighting on behalf of the USA government. They were launching an independent local rebellion on their own collective authority....so what they actually were was "rebels" against Mexican law. The Mexicans considered them to be about the same thing as "terrorists" in today's terms. However, they won in the end, after the Battle of San Jacinto, and founded the new republic of Texas. As we all know, the winners get to decide who "the good guys" are...after the fact.
@@georgecoventry8441 I didn’t say the US army was facing the Mexicans at this time. I was talking in general at this time in the 1820’s the US was a relatively poor nation and so the equipment of the military was the cheapest.
@@kennethbedwell5188- Ah, yes, you are quite right about that. Good point. The Europeans in particular had many hundreds of years behind them when it came to outfitting their troops with fine looking uniforms and equipment, while the USA was a newcomer in that respect.
los mexicanos no invadieron texas porque texas era de mexico viva mexico desde españa
Texas era de España. Nunca jamas ningun mexicano habia entrado ni se habia establecido en Texas, no seas paria , quien habia tenido a raya a apaches y comanches y habian tratado de llevarles la religion y las costumbres civilizadas fueron los españoles, nunca los mexicanos . Unos masones españoles, por su cuenta, decidieron dar la independencia a lo que llamaban Nueva España pero sin que los mexicanos hubieran entrado en Texas ( los españoles habian hecho poco antes una matanza de "texanos hispanos" que se habian sublevado contra los españoles, en la "batalla de Medina" , nunca ningun Azteca o similar habia estado en Texas . Pero los mexicanos tuvieron lo que se merecian: el primer acto en cuanto los españoles se fueron ( porque les dio la gana a los masones del gobierno español, no los habian derrotado ni expulsado los mexicanos ni nadie) suponiendose dueños de Texas, fue "anular todos los titulos de propiedad de tierras" que habian dado los españoles en Texas...esto cabreó a los texanos, muchos de origen español o de origen anglo o norteamericano pero que se habian establecido en Texas cuando era de soberania española...y se la tenian guardada a los mexicanos: ese fue el origen de la sublevacion de los texanos contra Mexico, parece que los mexicanos se habian hecho el proposito de quitar los titulos de propiedad de tierras dados por españoles y entregar esas tierras a colonos mexicanos que pasarian desde rio Bravo: los texanos les expulsaron de mala forma igual que habian entrado de mala forma : donde mas odio de todo el planeta se tiene a España y a los españoles es en Mexico, borrego , no en Texas
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Texas declared independence from Mexico just like how Mexican declared independence from Spain. So in other words when Texas became a independent nation Mexicans were invading them since it wasn't Mexico at that point.
I thought someone from Spain would've know this but I guess not.
@@AngelloDelNorte In a strictly legal sense, Texas was a property of Spain until December 1836, when Spain relinquished its sovereignty over the former "Nueva España."
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The site where they filmed this is still standing, though no longer open to the public. It's called Alamo Village outside Bracketville, Texas. The site was used for many movies, tv shows, music videos, and reenactments. I went there many times as a child. So many warm memories running around pretending to be Crockett against an entire army.
There are a few CZcams videos visitors have posted of the movie set there.
And that second Alamo movie, the one Billy Bob Thornton in 2004, was filmed near Dripping Springs, TX. That site no longer exists. It was destroyed in a wild fire resulting from a lightning strike. And what was left was torn down. It also sat on private ranch land, but was never opened to the public. The folks who owned the land didn't want to take out liability insurance for anyone getting hurt going through the structures.
Interesting fact John Wayne's Alamo was built to scale of the original measurements of the real Alamo. So it puts into perspective on how much the 180 something defenders had to defend. I recommend reading blood of noble men which is a full documented account of the day bay day actions during the 13 day siege of the Alamo. The more you read it they more you realize just how hopeless their situation truly was. The documentation of the final assault on March sixth just makes it even more sad for both sides.
Damn it's always nice to watch those old war-movies, when they had real men acting as soldiers, not the modern CGI-BULL... Their capacity to mobilize hundreds or even thousands of men was stunning. We'll never see again movies like this one or..."Zulu" or "Waterloo" - "War and Peace" - "SPARTACUS" (just few examples)...
But they are so unrealistic. These wars were way more bloody and gruesome. This looks like a walk in the park compared to what it was really like. Espessially the way they dramatically fall when they die.
@@interestingusername1049 you can have both of them use real guys and use cgi for Blood and guts
@@interestingusername1049 I agree! The Billy Bob Thornton depiction of Crockett was far mor believable, I did enjoy the Wayne version, when I saw it first when I was about ten years old.
I agree. These movies are so nostalgic with the massive amounts of smoke and the thousands of men and little to no cgi, it's amazing.
Wouldn't be to sure that we never see that again ;)
This wasn't invasion. Texas did belong to Mexico, and this was taken place during the Texas Revolution. Texas Revolution consisting of Americans (desiring to be annexed by the USA) and Mexicans (Federalist sympathies against the Centralist government), and they broke away from Mexico. General Santa Anna, the Commander and Chief of all of Mexico, personally led troops to crush the rebellion. The Alamo was occupied by the Texas Revolitionaries, but they weren't supposed to be there in the first place. The Texian Army commander, Sam Houston, ordered for the cannons in the Alamo to be removed.
This is no invasion.
Tejas no pertenecía a México y eso no lo cuenta la SEP. Tejas dejó de ser parte de la Nueva España para 1803....Búscate el tratado Adam Onis que deja en claro que Tejas ya no era de la nueva España para 1803...los españoles la separaron y se la vendieron a gringolandia en 1819...para ese entonces México no existía sino hasta Septiembre de 1821. Iturbide en Febrero de 1821 dio la orden de tomar Tejas y esta cae en manos militares mexicanas en Diciembre de 1821 derrotando al ejercito yankee comandados por un tal James Long y en 1832 México obliga a EUA a reconocer que Tejas es ahora de México... Luego Tejas se independiza y México la invade en una reconquista por segunda vez...a poco no suena bien....México conquistador en vez del lastimero que todos ustedes defienden a capa y espada. México ganó el 90 % de todas las batallas que se dieron en Tejas y tampoco no las enseñan. La única que perdió México fue la de San Jacinto con la que pierde Tejas y no hubo derrota humillante para el ejercito mexicano...sino más bien a Santa ANNA le pasaron el cheque por debajo y se encuentra con Sam Huston y se abrazan el abrazo de la traición. Hay muchas cosas que el pueblo de México desconoce. Ningún país se salva de ser conquistado y conquistador. México conquisto militarmente tres territorios que no nos enseñan y prefieren enseñarnos una historia falsa de empinados y violados y que pobrecitos de los mexicanos. Hacen una castración ideológica.
It is if you lose.
@@brunosamuraipictures890 excelente.
I’d like to add that the massacre at La Bahia in Goliad contributed more to rebel sentiments and desire for independence than the Alamo. No, Mexico cannot invade its own territory, as Texas was at this time. However, let’s not forget that Mexico won its independence from Spain barely 14 years before these events. American immigrants to Texas refused to become confessing Catholics, among other grievances, and eventually the sentiments became a war cry for Texas independence.
@Jonathan Williams and I referenced the Tejanos by calling them the Federalists. There were Federalists vs Centralists. Mexican Federalists referring also to the other revolts across Mexico.
4:23 THE CANNON LMAOOO
Cannon Made in China
It could have been even more funnier if the canon had fallen on top of a Dynamite cache and blow up the entire wall.
@@EyFmS it would have happened if this movie was from hollywood
@@EyFmSthat’s some looney tunes type of shit
For those wondering, this is from the John Wayne 1950's (?) 'The Alamo'. Also starring Richard Widmark as Jim Bowie, and Laurence Harvey as Col. Travis.
They could have had Pee Wee Herman as the chicken shit Moses Rose who ran away.
Wayne filmed in 1959, released in 1960. The scenes after the ad break though, are from the 2004 version of The Alamo, which starred Billy Bob Thornton.
Man those officers leading the charge looked so uninspiring. Lol
BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT ACTORS THAT WAS ALREADY A BAD MANAGEMENT DECISION
@magic8 so far¡ I´m Millenial jaja
@@brunosamuraipictures890 lol degenerate
@Kerry Scott dude shut the fuck up
They look like the guys that polish the officers boots and serves them dinner.
México no invadió nada, era su territorio y lo que hacia era defender su integridad territorial de los ladrones de origen anglo.
diganle a lis gringis q los devuelva como Evo morales
Y antes era de los españoles
@@aventuratamovil5233 Rectificación: Antes ERA España. Es decir, territorio nacional. No como los ingleses que para ellos serian colonias. Las 13 colonias que luego fueron USA con sus mismas ansias de conquista, explotación y exterminio racista.
Someone tell me what they are saying I don't really understand how to speak tacobell.
@@aventuratamovil5233 mexicas, totonacas, mayas, tlaxcaltecas: ?????
It's like in Iraq, Iraq attacked the American colony! In Iraq!
2:47 - fantastic acting... 😂😂
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l'OL
a la carga! adelante!
Back then in movies, when ppl winced, clutched their chests, and slowly crumpled over.
Russian war movies are rather good too look at Union of Salvation
@@bryanmartinez6600 that's a good one
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I did not realize they had video back then. It is nice to be able to see the actual, real battle instead of needing to wonder if the battle really happened like in the movie.
I hope this is a joke
@@recruitdifficulty1638 of course it is
As a retired Army Officer, a battle will kill you in a very ugly manner. That's why military men train hard to try to survive a battle.
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That cameraman. Is their *nothing* he can't shoot?
Great movie .. amazing cinematography on location. Hopefully this won't be erased from history.
I love how well the 1960 version portrayed the Mexican (Santa Anna’s) Army! They would have had very bright, colorful uniforms and tactics that seemed eerily familiar to Napoleon’s, due to Santa Anna being a great admirer of his, said to demand people refer to him as “Napoleon of the West”. However, they also don’t suck the cool-aid out of the Mexicans’ junks!: Despite being a national army, they were still a bunch of poorly trained and supplied conscripted peasants fighting for a dictator that had only been in power a couple of years! I love how the battle shows the superior marksmanship of the Texians, and shows them laying waste to the Mexicans in a straight fight, only falling under weight of numbers, a costly tactic that would soon cost Santa Anna the entire war!
But they do suck the biased american cool aid.
They were not poorly trained, you are wrong! They were battle hardened veterans who fought against Spain.
@@marthagomez7335 No, you’re wrong, dummy! Seriously though, all the Mexican Revolutionary War veterans were freaking dead during the Texas Revolution, man! Shortly after Mexican Independence, one warlord, President and Emperor after another took power; some of them were Revolutionary veterans, others were former loyalists! All the veterans were dead because, sooner or later, most factions were removed from power and purged. Santa Anna himself was a rare breed of rebel leader that survived the chaotic periods but all his men were conscripted peasants! The country was so broke that many of these Mexican soldiers had to wear sandals… in Texas, during the winter… when many of them were seeing snow for the first time in their lives!
@@marthagomez7335 first and foremost I'm talking about the American army not the Texans army (Texas still kicked Mexico ass though lol)
Next yes we know Mexicans are "Americans" but not by name just by continent give it up with that shit is so annoying and America Is part of north America as well
Next that just means the Mexican army and Santa Anna was an idiot for sleeping and underestimating the Texans Army what you call cowardly is just being smart and and using Lighting tactics to beat a numerically Superior opponent so duh that's the only way
And what does me being Mexican have to do with anything? I'm American by birth and proud to be an American this country raised me along with my family and it gave me a home and a life my loyalty lies with the United States of America not Mexico I'm proud of my heritage as a American Born Mexican but not loyal to mexico also really? Gringo? Just stop it's annoying to hear that word spat out by nationalistic idiots from Mexico it makes you look like fools Viva los Americanos, viva los Estados unidos
@@samuela.botello2881 I will never be able to hide the fact that I’m Mexican. I will never be Anglo and wouldn’t want to be. If I lived in those days. I would have asked Santanna to please give me a rifle and ammo to shoot at the shameless invaders. That is why they came. To rob , kill and destroy, exactly like the evil one. El diablo. It’s there in the Bible, read it
Tailor: So what colour should are uniforms be?
Mexico: Yes
This is not an insult, I like all of the variation. Very cool.
Different colors for different types of soldiers
Actually this is mostly historically accurate. Many of the newer raised units just before the invasion were given all white uniforms. The majority of Mexican infantry wore a dark blue tunic, no infantry unit wore red but many cavalry units did.
nah bro, they were unorganized and had just fought off spain, they had barely any organization, uniform, and other things that make an army professional, it was mostly a militia. Also, the first cannon shot was by the Texans.
[Grammar Police] It's our not are
@@Leo7s1822Tthe units that emerged directly from the Spanish militias and the guard units did have a uniform
Although yes, the rest of the army was a levy and many did not have a uniform, that depended on which region the levy came from.
This of the uniforms was not really noticeable during the campaign against texas, if not in the war against the united states
God those first officers calling orders sounded so unenthusiastic lol
As a Mexican I completely agree.
When you mess with a 167 level player who played the game from the day it was realeased.
Bravos Mexicanos,saudações do Brasil.
Fica quieto rapa, bravos somos nós
@@Vinicius21001 US is only lgbtq now
@@Vinicius21001Brasil só tem gay
Man this battle is actually hectic. First it had two american legends who fought in it and died in it (and i mean they were legends before this happened) and next this one single battle can be track back to be a direct cause of many things. With this battle Sam Houston is able to rally a force to defeat Santa Anna, in doing so creating the republic of Texas, then when the republic becomes an American state it tips the scales on pro slavery vs anti slavery in regards to what states are which, which leads to certain compromises which further divide the nation...but wait there is more, with its acceptance into the US this causes upset to Mexico as the US claims a vast swathe of territory west of Texas in New Mexico and California, leading to The Mexican-American war of the late 1840s, and all of this can be traced back to 186 men all dying in a run down mission, in a southern part of Texas.
David Crockett was a coward who wanted to go AWOL......true fact BTW.
Just like a certain future POTUS who faked bone spurs, was a cocaine addict in the 80's, was a bankrupt failed businessman, and is a adderall addict who can't drink water with his Adolf Hitler shaky left hand.
This movie is a great comedy, it shows the Mexican soldiers, like the villains, mistreating the defenseless Texans, when in reality, the Mexicans, were only defending the territorial integrity of their country, Texas was a Mexican territory, that I remember, When the United States annex, I use Texas to maintain SLAVERY, abolished in Mexico since the time of independence.
Hollywood because you don't tell the truth.
@@ConstancioRosellini5873
"This movie is a great comedy"- I suppose you can look at a representation of all those deaths as funny. You do you man.
"mistreating the defenseless Texans"- Well in part they were. The campaign of Anna here was to remove all settlers of the area, illegal and legal. The new Mexican government and Anna feared the amount of white settlers brought in by the previous government would topple their control, so they set about to remove them.
"Mexicans, were only defending the territorial integrity of their country,"- That is it i suppose. Why they did it and did it need to happen are not as simple.
"Texas was a Mexican territory"- It was. The area itself went through many changes but it basically remained Mexican territory up until 1848. As the republic was never officially acknowledged by Mexico, so Mexico never saw it as nothing but an independent part of their country.
" I use Texas to maintain SLAVERY, abolished in Mexico since the time of independence."- What? I don't understand. The slavery issue was never a big thing after it happened in the 1820's. The Alamo was 1836 and the war was 1846, so what do you mean?
The only thing i would add was Mexico as a villain. Anna was a bad guy. His order for this campaign was every white settler be branded a pirate, which means they could kill as many as they wanted and whoever they wanted. Anna wasn't great and the Americans were the ones sticking up for themselves whilst their opponent was pushing them out.
Yes and also see America becoming an 'Imperialist' power by land grabbing from Mexico.
Admittedly her future Imperialism is of a more covert nature but virtually every country in Latin America has suffered, and Worldwide.
@@tobyoneil1969 haha keep lying to yourself, but Santa Ana was a terrible dictator. Most of Mexico was fighting him, not only texas. My ancestor fought in the Alamo and he was Mexican. The people in the álamo were actually pissed that Santa changed the constitution of Mexico. They even had a flag with the date of the original constitution.
The land of Texas was Mexican territory. The defenders of the Alamo were actually rebels, they had been given land grants by the Mexicans if they farmed the land and became Roman Catholic. Travis had been ordered by his superior Sam Houston to abandon the Alamo Mission as he knew it was indefensible. He remained at the Alamo to force the rebel army's hand, to attack General Santa Anna army, they were not ready and if their untrained army had taken the field at that time they would have been defeated by Santa Anna's Mexican Army. The Almo Mission had no strategic importance and if Jim Bowie had not been incapacitated by illness, possibly cholera, at the time he would have overruled Travis as he was vastly more experienced in military matter. Davie Crocket was a failure as a politician in the U.S. he had failed in every venture he had tried, he was an adventurer trying his last throw of the dice to become rich. The myth of his John Wayne like death was debunked years ago as a diary was found from a contemporary diary kept by a Mexican Soldier who took part saying that they had caught him and others trying to sneak out of the Misson before the final attack and they were executed by firing squad. Sam Houston was also an adventurer, a failed U.S. Politician, a drunk and a person who I would not have trusted. Jim Bowie was also not a trustworthy man , he had burnt his boats in the U.S. due to his fraudulent land speculation activities and run in with the law. The war succeed against the Mexican Government was because the General Santa Anna was incompetent and the empty promises that they had made to the Spanish speaking inhabitants that their land grants given years before by the Spanish would be honoured, that was a lie as the triumphant Texas newcomers from the U.S. took their land from them and indulged in ethnic cleansing to remove them from their land. They became a disenfranchised underclass in Texas.
Notice commented to your accurate description of events.
All true and these facts and all facts should be in everyone's history books. Mexico is to blame too and all facts should be written. The true inhabitants were the american Indians
You forgot to mention how bad Santa Anna was or maybe you intentionally wanted the white rebels to seem bad
@@colehall2209 Whether Santa Anna was good or bad he was the leader of Mexico, the immigrants from the U.S had made a contract with that government, to become citizens , Roman Catholics , and improve the land. What they wanted was to bring the practice of slavery that they had in the U.S, the country they had left. This was unacceptable to the Mexican Government. Santa Anna ignored land grants given by the Spanish Government before Mexican independence, giving the land title to the new immigrants from the U.S was a bone of convention with Mexican land owners in the area , who fought on the behalf of the rebels in the belief that the newcomers would honour those rights, they did not after their win they forced them off the land. In addition the newcomers wanted a slave economy, to replicate the plantation society they had left behind.
It's funny when people think their intelligent when they're not. 😂 Crockett's death has not been debunked. The first thing you need to educate yourself with is to look up Susanna Dickinson, the lady depicted in every Alamo movie, read what she says about Davy Crockett, she actually knew him. Next, that De La Pena diary you're trying to reference was murdered on the street; he hated Santa Anna and it's believed he wrote that to illustrate Santa Anna's cruelty. A brain should tell you how strange it is that no one talked to that prisoner referenced as Crockett, hmmm, why would that be? Also, Americans took Texas, so? Where else would illegal Mexicans run to get away from Mexico?
This movie is so EPIC… As a kid I was memorized when I watched this.
The Disney version, with all its flaws, is a much better telling of the story.
This movies still better tho
Nelson are you related to Tony Montana?
Disney kind of sucked I like the 2004
"Mexican Army invade Republic of Texas" - what a joke.
Invadir???
NUESTRO propio país???
Solo es propaganda americana.
Digo estadounidense
The winner writes the history my friend
@@johnhurd72 millions of mexicans lives in TEXAS just now, with the time, we take our territory once again....
@@antoniostark4194 well millions of mexican americans live in Texas. So you might find they fight against you because they will have a much better chance at success if they are a part of america, rather than Mexico. Besides Mexico only formed as a result of Spain being colonists. So Mexico is the same as america and how they took land, my friend.
México no invade,al contrario,defiende sus tierras,digan las cosas cómo son,no tergiversen la historia. Viva México cabrones!!!
México sucks Bro
👎
The reason why the Mexicans appeared to be outgunned at the beginning even though clearly having more men is because the Mexicans were equipped with brown bess muskets which were ineffective at longer ranges. The texians had sharpshooter rifles so they had the initial advantage.
people also forget how far away Texas and San Antonio is from Mexico (the populated part at that time) most of the Mexican troops were NOT soldiers but forced conscripts from the provinces they picked up along the way, and who did not care or want to be a part of this, just like most Texans (or whatever word you want to use) did not really support independence.
4:17 the way they walk over the walls then “fall” off lmao
Lol 2 guys randomly falling off on the right
Title should be "US illegal aliens revolt."
That’s just foul bruh
Stfu
The American settlers were INVITED by the Mexican gov't to to settle in Texas and deal with the commanches and bandits.
@@curly27784 And how did it ended. USA took also 50% of our territory, not only Texas.
Glory to the brave 19th century Mexican soldiers, who defended the territorial integrity of Mexico from the US-American pirates, who were balkanizing the Mexican province of Texas.
Yes, because they were illegal immigrants who rose up against the Mexican Republic, Texas did not have the right to separate from Mexico, but the US-American pirates wanted to continue maintaining slavery, abolished in Mexico since 1810.
Mexico land of racial equality.
I remember watching this when I was little it was so intense it was the first war movie I’d seen and it was awesome. Although for 6 year old me The blood was a bit much even though it looked pink and unrealistic lol
Respect to both sides 💪🏼
Americans has no honour, they are savages and they all must die
Texas,tierra mexicana!!🇲🇽
I'm sorry mohow..(spit tobacky)... Look again 🇺🇸🤠🍺
No ustedes nos dió Texas 🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸
@@bigguy5169 usa steal 50% of the mexican territory
@@isaacgodinezceron1146 Mexico shouldn’t have taken that fat fucking L lmaoooo😭
Sorry but Texas will never join mexico because mexico so poor compare to U.S
The Mexican assault began around 3:30-4:00 am on March 6. It was pitch dark and the Mexican columns were over the north wall before the alarm was sounded. A good portion of the Texian defenders bolted from the Alamo; heading through a gate at the palisade near the chapel. An estimated 60-70 tried to flee in the direction of the Gonzales road and were run down and killed by waiting Mexican cavalry. Most of the rest were slain in brief, hand-to-hand encounters in the Long barracks and the Artillery barracks across the plaza. There is some evidence that as many as eight men did escape from the Alamo, though only one or two who were slightly wounded lived for any time.
Furthermore, it is believed Davey Crockett surrendered with a handful of other men ... who were then all put to death.
In the case of it being a night assault, filming it with 1960's technology would have been difficult so I understand and accept the variation done for the film audiences' sake. Likewise, I am unsure if Mr. Wayne knew about the men who tried to escape the death trap which was the Alamo. Much of the information was discovered, or believed, later in the 20th century. All and all, I like the film despite these irregularities.
Yea sure thing jose
Texians did achieve a good 3-1 K/D ratio.
Mexicans got to practice the their executioning and murdering before Goliad.
Texans got to practice their K/D ratio before San Jacinto.
@@NotOurRemedy From most of the contemporary evidence, the majority of Mexican losses were due to friendly fire in the darkness and the confusion after the assault columns gained entry to compound. The Texians were plagued by a shortage of good powder; they didn't, with the exception of Crockett's small group, have good muskets or rifles. The majority were armed with shotguns, pistols, and long guns more suitable for hunting game. The only cannon the defenders fired were the two 12-pounders of Captain Dickenson, that were used to try and give cover to the group of defenders that were fleeing toward the Gonzales road. The first Mexican columns were ordered NOT to load their weapons, and use the bayonet. The following assault formations did load their weapons and this is where the friendly fire incidents occurred.
@@NotOurRemedy What David said. Plus the Mexicans were attacking a fortifed position. It's a given that the defenders will lose more men than the defenders. That's just how battles work. Attackers need more men to beat the defenders because they'll likely lose more men.
Gotta give props to the older Alamo movie for really showing the fort just get blown to absolute bits by the Mexican artillery, there were probably explosions going off right up to when the walls were breached.
this building was not a fort, but rather a mission.
@@pumasgoya It was a Mission converted into a FORT
@@pumasgoya It was a Mission converted into a FORT
long life to the united states of Mexico
Fun fact some of those Texans or Tejans weren't Texan, some where from Kentucky, New York, Massachusetts and other states but where declared Texas heroes.
You can find their flags in the Alamo museum
None of them were from Texas, the only true Texas were the Mexicans that lived in tejas
@@mr.battledroid2195 Your comment has nothing to do with the fun fact
@@pyrothefriendlyarsonist9195 im just pointing out facts
2:32 Gotta love recoilles cannons
Lol
Also muskets!
Lol
you noticed then
mexican army not invade the Alamo , Mexican army defend texas because texas is mexico , don´t forgget .
Mexico is a shit hole so that's not possible
Shout out to the brave camera crew that got all this footage!
"Mexican army invade Republic of Texas"
hahahaha aaaaahhhhhhh the classic revision of history by the americans.
But that's what they did the lost territory in the Mexican American war and wanted some back and they Could not fight the USA agian so they attacked texas
@@LiquidSoggyBread When the events recreated in this movie happened, the Repúblic of Texas didn't exist yet. México never invaded the independent Texas.
The battle at the Alamo was Feb 23, 1836 thru Mar 6, 1836.
The Republic of Texas was established
Mar 2, 1836.
The 1st President was sworn in Mar 16, 1836.
@@LordDefekator Mexico did invade the republic of Texas, read a history book. They occupied San Antonio at various times.
Wasn't expecting this level of fighting in the comment section! Its like another Alamo!!
Good thing many of them dont speak english
Que dices wey? ?. Someone could post the same but in spanish jajaja. Anyway I only say like SpongeBob Squarepants and Patrick: who wants the dumb old Texas.
@@jeffthemercenary And you speak spanish or...?
@@noahyurk3625 no i mean most people in see fighting is using spanish
@@jeffthemercenary They are butthurt about hte loss of Teaxs.
むしろ侵略したのはアメリカ側では……？
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This version of the Alamo is the most historically inaccurate movie ive ever seen, but that doesn't stop it from being totally bad ass. If you want a more historically accurate battle of the Alamo watch the 2004 movie under the title "The Alamo" it's way more historically accurate. However if you want a totally bad ass battle scene which makes you want to pull off your clothing, pull on a New Orleans's Grey's uniform and grab your Kentucky Rifle while screaming "No step in snek" please do watch on.
The 2004 movie just feels like a neoconfederate anti Mexican propagandistic film
@@mr.battledroid2195 Cool, I'll have to check it out then. Thanks!
@@telesniper2 No problem! Feels great guiding people into films of their liking 👍
The General of the Mexican forces (Santa Anna) is the SAME guy we can thank for chewing gum. He brought Chicle from South America to New York City to try and sell it as a coating for buggy wheels. His aide thought up a better use as chewing gum. Believe or not. And that was LONG after this battle!
You can Thank the Natives for chewing Gum.
@پیر الکساندر خان p0p p0p 0 p0p
Interesting. But chicle es actually from the jungles of Southern Mexico and Central America. The word derives form "sicte yá" which means mouth movement in maya.
Santa Anna was an A--hole dude. No thanks at all ;D
Mexico isn’t South America damnit
0:00 The Alamo (1960)
7:04 (2004)
I like the 2004 version
2:42 man those reactions
Ik, so bad lmao
LOL
classic
3:04 the deaf old man says "Hey stop throwing rocks at me"
John Wayne's "The Alamo" was an exciting movie, but historical accuracy went completely out the window. For one thing, the final attack began about 3:00 am, while it was still completely dark. By the time sunrise had occurred, the fighting was over. In the confusing mele, the Mexicans probably shot as many of their own men as the Alamo's defenders did.
it's called a movie.....most historical epics are only partly factual....does it matter? I mean, if you want near 100% accuracy then go see a documentary....movies have a tight time frame, star power, marks to hit, emotion/tension to build etc etc......it was an awesome movie, a classic
@@fabianpatrizio2865 See the new one a bit more accurate and the final assault takes place at night as it did and it also show that there were Mexican inside the Alamo as defenders
Their technology forced them to film in the day.
@@damiansaucedo9951 The scene could still have been presented as occurring at night by placing filters over the camera lens for the "Day for Night" effect. It was a common movie practice of the day.
Related to the final assault scene of "The Alamo", the Mexican Army was depicted giving the Alamo's defenders everything short of an engraved invitation in signaling their intentions. In reality, the final early morning assault was carried out with stealth; the Mexicans were almost at the Alamo's walls when they were detected by the by-now exhausted lookouts and the alarm was sounded. The confusion of the darkness slowed the attack enough to give time for the Alamo's defenders to man their defenses.
Also, the Texans fired the first cannon shot after the Mexicans gave them a chance to surrender. This was a response to the call for surrender.
You wonder how much longer they would have lasted if the defenders took the ladders instead of knocking them over?
Hard to say, but Mexican artillery was also blasting holes in the Alamo's walls.
They really stood no chance. The Alamo was huge (compared to what everyone see’s today.) and even the recreated Alamo for the 2004 movie was still only about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the original. They didn’t have the manpower and even if all of San Houston’s men had been there, they still wouldn’t have had the manpower to defend it. They were spaced so far apart (regardless of what this shows) they couldn’t cover each others firing arcs.
We Need More Movies like this made old school thousands and thousands of Extras Not computer made movies
Italy son, Mexico, take back their lands
Italy is with Mexico
Lending of our lands to the US for development purposes will end soon.
If you really know what the motto means: America for Americans.
You will have no problem saying also: Mexicans invade Mexico.
Lol you're right, these rebel is just American (mostly) immigrant migrated into Mexican-held Texas, and then proclaimed to be independent and later annexed by USA.
Whats funny about this is I live in L.A. and go to Tijuana all the time so I have a lot of Mexican Mexicans as friends. The mexican half of my family is all from Texas, so when they ask where in Mexico my Mexican side of the family is from I say Texas, then they say thats not Mexico. SO then we have to have a whole history lesson on the subject if my family is mexican or not haha
Mexicans are the citizens of Mexico not a race of people. So your family is American not Mexican.
@@kevinthomes1046 Mexicans are americans
@@tacoguy764 Please explain how Mexicans are Americans. Americans are citizens of USA. Mexicans are citizens of Mexico. How can someone who is not a citizen of Mexico be Mexican?
@@kevinthomes1046 America is a continent not a country, Mexico is located in America, just like the United States are located in America
@@tacoguy764 That is not accurate. The United States and Mexico are located in North America. America is used as a short version of the United States of America.
The title should be the Mexican army defends Texas from pirates
How bout instead of worrying about the past you worry about defending Mexico from its own terrorist narco citizens LMAOOO
Cope
@@pliniojr95
Okay pirate
I like the music for when the army is getting into position
Debía poner que los Mexicanos intentan reconquistar parte de su país... ;) ¡Viva Méjico cabrones!
cabrones ? y xq cabrones ? son homossexuales ?
@@carlosomar57 Que diablos?
Queeeee
@@carlosomar57 lo decía la canción del grupo mejicano Molotov
I visited the Alamo last year and was surprised to hear how savage and murderess the Texans were. If the didn’t died at the Alamo they in modern times would have been charged with war crimes. Too bad some folks think they are hero’s.
Crimes to us but at the time there was no such thing. Texan frontiersman/ Texas Rangers pre annexation by the USA were some tough motherfuckers. Not motivated by money they just wanted adventure. Yes they committed many atrocities but so did the people they fought. Compared to what Comanches did while raiding it was pretty tame.
@@iansmith8944 when you say "pre annexation" do you mean invaded and stole it? I guess Nazi Germany was only pre annexing the world.
@@adrianryan5609 I meant before the USA annexed Texas. Which was done peacefully. I’m not defending the actions of anyone. It was a different time and I don’t think it’s fair to hold them to the same standard that we set for ourselves today.
Texas rose up against the Mexican Republic, balkanized by US-American immigrants to continue maintaining a system of labor based on SLAVERY, Mexico had abolished slavery since independence.
Santa Anna was a war criminal and a coward. Remember Goliad!
Ojalá que así de elegante, equipado, preparado y organizado hubiese sido el ejército mexicano de aquella época. La realidad es que la mayoría eran campesinos analfabetos, reclutados a la fuerza por la leva sin ningún tipo de entrenamiento militar, muchos hasta descalzos andaban...
@Alexis Caselis You for real? Well that would help explain how that despite outnumbering the Americans and winning the Mexicans still lost more soldiers. Son of the Morning Star portrays Custer’s Last Stand as an epic final battle where Custer is one of the last to be killed. In reality I guarantee it wasn’t as exciting as how the film portrayed it and Custer was apparently one of the first to be killed according to various accounts.
No sabes nada
This is pretty good action sequences
¡¡Viva México!!
¡Viva México!
Viva deez huevos
@@davidstevenson6724 Jaja gringo tries to be funny 🎉
@@jorgeml8112 yo soy guero
Spain gave up its claim to Florida and in exchange the US gave up its claim to what is now Texas. The Spanish empire collapsed and Mexico became its own country. Mexico was having trouble with Comanche raids in what is now Texas, so they allowed people from the Louisiana Territory to come live there. Too many northerners started moving into Texas so Mexico abolished slavery and raised taxes to discourage more settlers. The Texians revolted so Mexico sent an army to reclaim its territory. This led to the Battle of the Alamo. So this was actually the theft of Mexican land. The US eventually invaded the entire southwest and California.
It was totally unjust theft, but in the end we the descendants are much better off being part of the US than Mexico.
To be fair, the Texicans were in revolt against Santa Anna's regime, not out to form their own Republic when things began. They only settled on a Republic when it became clear how outmatched they were. They couldn't never beat Santa Anna's other armies so the accepted independence for their slice of Mexico instead. That is why the flag has '1824' on it - for the Mexican Constitution of 1824, which Santa Anna had cast down and the Texicans were fighting to restore.
The Mexican-American War was a rather different matter. That pretty much an unjust land theft.
@@jamesdosher2057 The theft of the South West by the US was nothing more than a country with superior military power invading a neighbor. My ancestors in New Mexico revolted in Santa Fe and were captured and hung by the US military.
Fast forward to 1941-1945. If the US did not exist with sufficiently large population, resources and fortitude to defend itself, the world would be a very different place, and we would probably be speaking German or Japanese!!!
So even though the details on how the US was created are unsettling, we the descendants are better off. My ancestors fought and died in WWII to preserve the country we have today. I am grateful for the country we have regardless of how it came into existence. That is why I won't partake in criticizing our history. We simply don't know what the outcome would have been.... conditions in our country could easily be much worse than they are today.
The US supported the independence of Texas because it was the way that they could integrate Texas and then just a war with México and BOOM the manifest destiny is complete, it's just pure imperialism.
Very good battle scene arrangements for this film.
How long did they take to form their lines? The other team could have just walked away faster than that
Favorite shot at 5:08 just love it
This is so badly edited it boggles the mind. When I first started watching, I thought I'd finally found the best clip ever of the last battle from John Wayne's epic. Only a few minutes into it, my hopes were dashed in realizing it couldn't be shared to my Facebook group. What a shame!
What?
La primera vez que la vi fue en sabados de super accion un peliculon jhon wayne que mas
Saludos de argentina¡!!!
Btw I saw a docu about the siege of Szigetvár, and one of the comment said, the Alamo was a calm afternoon teaparty compare to this :D
Interesting fact. Of all the people (who's nationality/ state is known) more Britons fought at the Alamo than Texans.
Britons were the single largest contingent.
Ever wondered how many Texican posers there were back then, claiming to have survived the Battle of the Alamo? I'd venture a guess of maybe 5 or so.
Of course, where ever there's a land grab the avaricious Brits are sure to be there!
@@thurmanmerman2720 if you want a job done properly...
@@fishyc150 Sure, just like Brexit!!! If it ain't broke, the Brits will fcuk it up anyway!
@@thurmanmerman2720 you've clearly no idea.
Love the recoiless cannons.
Glory to the Heroic Mexicans who fought bravely to resist the Anglo invaders who occupied their land
*Everyone hating on America*, Me an American *Laughs in freedom*
Why did the Amercans not win they had John Wayne he always wins.
Yeah and his son Patrick Wayne WTF happened 😳 😒 😐
Because they lost last stand of the Alamo were almost wiped out
@@Dawsonguidroz8538 Ah you said almost so John Wayne saved the day but its just a shame he is not alive today to do the same in films to make America look great as the are the laughing stock of the world with Creepy Biden in control the man who likes to sniff little girls and talk dirty in their ears.
They were every outnumbered and outgunned
Erick of course they were it happened to b still Mexico 🇲🇽 not Texas, the Mexican army lost a lot of young soldiers which weakened Santa Ana chances to win 🤔 so n a way the texans were able to defeat him & the men at the alamo were successful n creating problems for him 😉
Ever notice there are typically 6 men manning the cannon in a scene? There were 18 operating cannon at the time of battle. In all probability each cannon was manned by 3 As the number defending the Alamo is reported between 180-220 using the median of 200 would indicate nearly 25% of the defenders were manning cannon leaving approximately 150 to defend the walls. This number would be lower as the hospital had many beds filled. Alamo movies show many more riflemen defenders than there actually were.
The March goes hard🔥!
0:33 defenders are shown way too tightly packed together -- there's almost 40 manning that short section of wall (in two rows no less), leaving about 145 to man the entire rest of the perimeter. But I guess they wanted to make it look good.
The final assault was actually at early dawn, the Soldados formed in silence before the sun was up. The defenders had pre-loaded muskets stacked against the walls. Each gun (artillery) had two men to operate it because one of them had to hold his thumb over the vent wile sponging and ramming the round. It was a mean, bloody fight. But both sides knew what was happening, the Texanos knew that they would all be killed on the last day and they did whatever they could to kill as many of their assailants as possible, including waving white flags from the barracks and then shooting the Soldados that approached to take their surrender.
But there is a very important point here. The Tejanos were fighting as Mexican citizens under the flag of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, It is likely that the defenders, except for Crockett's recently arriving contingent, spoke Spanish with each other. They did not know Texas had declared independence. That took place at Washington-on-the-Brazos far away and three days before the Alamo fell. They were fighting as Mexicans for Mexican rights against a tyrant.
One thing that we tend to forget is that these were were just regular guys no more different than you and me who were thrusted into a terribly hopeless situation. They took a calculated risk when Santana and his army appeared out of nowhere on march 23 catching them completely by supersize. They had a choice to try run away and all be rundown by the cavalry or hold up in the Alamo and try to last ass long as possible until reinforcements could arrive. They calculated wrong and they paid for it wit their lives.
I'm not down playing their courage at all far from it. I'm just putting this in perspective because we can only speculate what was their thought process, because of the simple but very critically important fact is that we were not there. We do not know what it was really like, how the conditions were during the 13 days and the siege did not happen instantly as the Mexican army took several days to incurcle the Alamo, set up their camps well out or the range of the Alamo's guns, then they had to set up their siege batteries of artillery which were four of five positions which had to be place far enough away where the Alamo cannon could not just blast away at them but, they could not set the artillery so far away that the cannon balls would have no effect on the Alamo's walls, on to of that the army had to set pickets or little outpost rining around the army to protect them from any enemy forces coming to reinforce that Alamo.
Travis, Bowie, Crockett, captain Dickinson, Bohnan and a few other officers were fully aware of how hopeless their situation was as they were the ones to learn of information happening well beyond Sanantonio. They kept the information to them selves and what information they did let circulate was well down played for the moral of the men. At some point Travis, Bowie, Crockett, captain Dickinson, Bohnan and a few other officers had to have come to the conclusion that nobody was coming or if any one was coming they would most likely not come in time before the final assault. When Travis finally did tell the defenders how hopeless their situation was. There were only three options, surrender and be killed, slip over the wall in the night and take their chances in the dark, or stay in the Alamo and have a fifty fifty chance of living for dieing. Non of these choice are desirable but, I like most of them would probably take the fifty fifty chance of staying in the Alamo as they were far more likely to survive in the walls. Even after Travis told the men that no one was coming many of the defenders probably believed that help was coming right up to the moment that they were being bayoneted to death.
I want to restate again that I'm not down playing their courage at all far from it. I'm just putting this all in perspective as best I can
Thrilling, how close this is to the battles between the Germanic tribes and Rome. The societal structures of the Germanic and Romantic worlds never changed between Teutoberg and Alamo.
My great great grandfather was a Texan in that war I was born in San Antonio
6:21 Do I fall straight down or stumble over to the box, and lay down nice and soft.
Me gusta mucho el diseño del uniforme mexicano :3
Cuál de ellos? Cada regimiento tiene el suyo 😐 bueno, como en cada ejercito al estilo napoleónico
Nunca se invadió a texas, al contrario texas perteneció a coahuila, México sabemos mejor la historia la gente de coahuila que cualquier otra persona.
Yo soy de frontera de piedras negras víva mexico
Yo soy de frontera de piedras negras víva mexico
I think the title meant "Immigrants revolted against Mexico."
Who were the immigrants
And Mexico back in the day was the Spanish
@@leonardovanduchess4247 so called texans were illigal immigrants
i wish war movies' were still like those movies' back in the 60s
I thought Texas was a part of Mexico not USA 🤔
Like America was a part of Britain
used to be, Until mexico brought in Protestant american immigrants to settle in lands that were frequently raided by native american tribes. After a while the mexicans began trying to get rid of the protestant americans for various reasons, which resulted in tensions rising between the two until the Americans rebelled due to heavily increased taxation and a ban on any more protestant immigrants. Mexico fought its own short term civil war, in which the rebelling mexican faction led by Santa anna emerged victorious. the texans rebelled against santa annas government not long afterwards and won their war of independence.
Around 1836, the Mexican province of Texas, was mainly inhabited by "illegal" US-American immigrants, but they took up arms against the Mexican government, when Mexico prohibited them from using slavery as a form of work, then the rebels had proposed to emancipate themselves from Mexico.
To continue maintaining slavery, but General Santa Anna, then president of Mexico, did not allow them, Texas was Mexican territory, he had no right to separate.
The president of Mexico defended the integrity of the Mexican national territory, from the US-American pirates who balkanized Texas, Santa Anna's army was a poor army in resources and weapons, it was not like Hollywood that shows it as an overly powerful invading army, the Mexicans were in their territory, the invaders were the "US-Americans".
So an armed conflict began between both parties that led to the secession of Texas.
That's the truth, why don't they tell it?
@@andresmora5192 they dont tell it as they tell so much other BS about the US history. It would not sound so "heroic" if the dumb, average us citizen would know the truth.
@@BW-og1vu have you had an American education ? America is not portrayed as heroic in any sense. Especially their actions during the 19th century.
Legend has it that they are still invading to this very day.
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I wonder ? back when this movie was made, they did not have the finale attack, has what really happened ? in the early morning as it was in the new Alamo movie.
185 holding back 5000..
I think it is 186
until they didn't. never forget
@@palious13 It was 13 days i believe and Mexican casualties are estimated between 200-500 of an attacking force of 2000 and almost immediately afterwards the rest of the Mexican army was routed by a Tennessee militia and Santa Anna was found hiding in the grass. Never forget a hand full of men (and some women) of different ethnicity (white, Mexican and native american) came together to hold off a run down fort to secure a life for themselves and hold back a dictator bent on expanding his already large empire.
@@tobyoneil1969 With respect, they didn't secure for themselves. Didn't they all die?
@@victoryoneable They secured the mission to act as a holding ground for Texas territory, something that itself was trying to be secured by many for a 'new life'. So yeah, they secured it for themselves, regardless of the fact they failed. Are you specifically talking about the word 'secured' and how that means it should not have failed?
Really really wish they had preserved more of the Alamo site over the years. The Alamo today is barely a sliver of what it was historically.
There was very little left and most of it was built over as the city grew. I grew up in San Antonio, and it is interesting how so many people now are so vested in the event and unwilling to note the complexities of Mexican and Texas history.
Best version ever!
The racoon hat looks cool.