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01-31-2007
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Can possibly a Texan lay me a helping hand?
I am on assignment again, this time for a very short article on the Battle of the Alamo. Such an enormous event is already difficult enough to synthetize in 3500 letters. Can somebody please give me a deep insight about the peculiar guns and cannons used in the battle?
THNX as usual. 
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01-31-2007
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Well, towards the end it's traditionally held to include bowie knives and guns swung as clubs.
I'll see what I can dig up.
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01-31-2007
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I live about 5 miles away from the site of the battle. I'll try to go there tomorrow and get some pictures with my camera. They have some rifles on display. Not sure how they'd take to you using the pics, but I'll take them anyway and you can figure out if it's okay to use them.
The Alamo was the Thermopylae of the Republic of Texas. I'm sure you already know a great deal about the battle itself (if you don't, there are plenty of websites on it). So I'll try to just get you some weapon pictures and info. Interesting notes: Crockett (who was an old man by this time) and his men defended a section of (inefective) improvised wall between the chapel and the low barracks, which was the weakest point in defense. Also, the facade we've all come to know as the "alamo symbol" wasn't around at the time of the battle. It looked more like this: http://www.thealamofilm.com/artman/u...cade-movie.jpg As you can tell it's a bit different.
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01-31-2007
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Check out this link HERE (History of Alamo Tex-Web at Texas A&M University) here is a runthrough of weapons used
Are there any particular guns you look for? In that case i might be able to come up with some Hi-Res... Here are a few (not very large) pics 2 brown bess's & the baker rifle Last edited by Cesare : 01-31-2007 at 06:17 PM.
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02-01-2007
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Thnx!
Thank you for your help, but by this time, I have done it already.
Both parts were equipped with such high numbers of "Brown Bess" muskeets that mentioning any other would just have been a waste of time and space.
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02-01-2007
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I don't know about that, there were definitely decent numbers of rifles on the Texan side, though likely they were only used in the initial exchanges. I'm sure once everything got close enough it was mostly muskets because they loaded faster.
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