Exodus From The Alamo: The Anatomy Of The Last Stand Myth - Plot & Excerpts
For the most part, the real story of the Alamo is not about romantic heroics or an alleged, deliberate self-sacrifice, but concerns the consequences of sheer folly. A fatal mixture of overconfidence, unpreparedness, and miscalculation ensured that an easily avoidable mistake—deciding to remain in San Antonio, or Béxar (as it was long known by the local Tejanos) to defend the Alamo—made Santa Anna’s job much easier than he imagined. Much more than the flawed strategic vision, the lack of tactical and strategic insight on the part of the Alamo’s leaders—James Clinton Neill, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis—brought Santa Anna a relatively easy victory. Revealing their collective inexperience and lack of military training, all three Alamo leaders possessed a poor grasp of strategic realities. Combined with little tactical insight, and aggravated by personal ambitions and priorities, the failure of command judgment doomed the Alamo garrison to a tragic fate.
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