The Alamo

[Dill]

(09-22-2016, 04:36 PM)BengalHawk62 Wrote: True.  but if memory serves, that last battle was the culmination of weeks of bombardment by the Mexicans into the Alamo, keeping everyone inside up and unable to go to sleep.  That last night they finally stopped bombing the place and let the defenders finally sleep.  Then in the early, pre morning dawn, they assembled and assaulted the fort while most everyone was still sleeping inside, preventing many soldiers from being ready at their posts.  I think they first started the assault around 4am and it was all over with by 6:30 or 7am.  Could a couple of properly placed, properly equipped, machine guns kept the Mexicans at bay? 

Ha, ha, well, of course they could have, if you are talking about something like a Browning .30 cal. . A couple of properly placed machine guns would have won any major European land battle up to 1870.

I don't believe the Texans faced weeks of bombardment as the siege only lasted 13 days and the Mexican artillery after most of the army.