On Sam Houston

I too have enjoyed this re-telling of Texas history because I have visited the Alamo in San Antonio and the San Jacinto battlefield and memorial in Houston. At first I questioned the tactics with which Houston defeated Santa Anna in the film. The tactics consisted of having the saloon girls of Buffalo Bayou (the settlement that later became the city of Houston) to call on Santa Anna and his officers and distract them before the Battle of San Jacinto, and I thought, "Well, this is Hollywood's idea." Then, while cleaning out the garage a few months later, I found my souvenir book from the Alamo, and it told the same story of Houston using the prostitutes to distract the Mexican army. The mullatto woman who entertained Santa Anna became known as "The Yellow Rose of Texas," and she inspired the song by that name.

Houston already had Santa Anna and his army trapped in a triangle with the bay on one side, open prairie on the next side, and a heavily forested area on the third side, and this geographic location (on the east side of present-day Houston) made the defeat of Santa Anna relatively easily.

Santa Anna had been known for using trickery and treachery in his sweep across Texas, and Houston wanted to give Santa Anna a taste of his own medicine. Santa Anna had burned the original city of Gonzales, east of San Antonio, after promising the evacuating citizens that he would leave the town untouched. Then, he executed Fannin and his men at Goliad, southeast of San Antonio. The defenders of the Alamo had expected to be helped by Fannin, but they learned too late that Santa Anna already had defeated Goliad. So, Houston's strategy of distraction proved to be another example of using the same treachery against a treacherous enemy.

We can remember tough,fearless Caucasians by thhousands fighting Mexicans.
White Mexican Americans were great men then too.
Fast forward to current times wheree/when millions of Mexicans make fools of All Americans Red,White,Yellow and Black by running all over the current gutless Americans.Shame on every American man for doing nothing.
This movie a winner with Sam Elliott a 10.