To greg stephens - Great thread. There are so many great songs about the Alamo that I, an American growing up overseas and thus elarning US history through folk songs, thought that it had been a great victory - for the US, I mean.
Oh, and to another poster - I've met as lot of Texan men, but none of them have been really hung. Isn't it still "hanged" for criminals and "hung" for pictures, when not making references to anyone's genical endowment? I believe that is the only vestige of human-nonhuman noun classification in English.
And thanks for all the cool Alamo information, everybody else!