This forced Native Americans to move off their lands. He decided to leave politics and go west. In , he left the country and went to Texas. Texas was part of Mexico. He joined a troop of Tennessee volunteers to fight in the Texas war against Mexico. In February of , he went to San Antonio, Texas. He helped over men to defend the Alamo.
The Mexican army captured the Alamo. David Crockett was killed during battle. He died on March 6, David is remembered today for his bravery as a soldier and a frontiersman. He wrote an autobiography in The book helped his legend grow. There was a TV show made about him in the s. Children even began to wear coonskin caps that he wore in the show. Over years later, we still remember David Crockett as a Tennessee legend.
Frontier - NOUN part of a country that is being settled people moving too by hunters and other pioneers. Durham — John Frederick — J. Taylor — Edward W. Taylor — Luke M. Bast — Jas. Hinkey — O. Brown — John Viven — W. Bell — James A. Douglass — T. Thompson — T. Hunter — Thomas Z. Walden — G. Raymond Abner Glidwell — William C.
Hays — John Fox — Christopher C. Bruff — David Cowens — John D. Lodgeback — M. Government service in Texas would rejuvenate his political career and, as he stated elsewhere, provide the source of the affluence he had unsuccessfully sought all his life. He intended to become land agent for the new territory. On the one hand Crockett was still fighting Jackson. The Americans in Texas were split into two political factions that divided roughly into those supporting a conservative Whig philosophy and those supporting the administration.
Crockett chose to join Col. William B. Travis, who had deliberately disregarded Sam Houston's orders to withdraw from the Alamo, rather than support Houston, a Jackson sympathizer. What was more, he saw the future of an independent Texas as his future, and he loved a good fight. Crockett died in battle of the Alamo on March 6, The manner of his death was uncertain, however, until the publication in of the diary of Lt. Susanna Dickinson, wife of Almaron Dickinson, an officer at the Alamo, said Crockett died on the outside, one of the earliest to fall.
Joe, Travis's slave and the only male Texan to survive the battle, reported seeing Crockett lying dead with slain Mexicans around him and stated that only one man, named Warner, surrendered to the Mexicans Warner was taken to Santa Anna and promptly shot. Travis had previously written that during the first bombardment Crockett was everywhere in the Alamo "animating the men to do their duty. Crockett and five or six others were captured when the Mexican troops took the Alamo at about six o'clock that morning, even though Santa Anna had ordered that no prisoners be taken.
The general, infuriated when some of his officers brought the Americans before him to try to intercede for their lives, ordered them executed immediately.
They were bayoneted and then shot. Crockett's reputation and that of the other survivors was not, as some have suggested, sullied by their capture. Despite its many falsifications and plagiarisms, Richard Penn Smith's Col.
Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas Written by Himself had a reasonably accurate account of Crockett's capture and execution. Many thought the legendary Davy deserved better, and they provided it, from thrilling tales of his clubbing Mexicans with his empty rifle and holding his section of the wall of the Alamo until cut down by bullets and bayonets, to his survival as a slave in a Mexican salt mine.
In the final analysis, however, no matter how fascinating or outrageous the fabrications were that gathered around him, the historical David Crockett proved a formidable hero in his own right and succeeded Daniel Boone as the rough-hewn representative of frontier independence and virtue. Just before he turned 16, Crockett went home and helped work off his father's debt to a man named John Canady. After the debt was paid, he continued working for Canady.
At just a day shy of 20, Crockett married Mary Finley. The two would have two sons and a daughter before Mary died. Crockett then wed Elizabeth Patton, and the couple had two children. In , after the War of broke out, Crockett signed up to be a scout in the militia under Major John Gibson. In November of that year, the militia massacred the Indians' town of Tallushatchee, Alabama.
When Crockett's enlistment period for the Creek Indian War was up, he re-enlisted, this time as a third sergeant under Captain John Cowan. Crockett was discharged as a fourth sergeant in and went home to his family in Tennessee. After returning home, Crockett became a member of the Tennessee State House of Representatives from to In , he ran for the 19th U.
Congress but lost. Running as a supporter of Andrew Jackson in , Crockett earned a seat in the U. House of Representatives. In March , he changed his political stance to anti-Jacksonian and was re-elected to the 21st Congress, though he failed to earn a seat in the 22nd Congress.
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