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David Crockett
David Crockett
David Crockett
Political career
Crockett served in the Tennessee Militia for a few years, then ran for Congress in 1824.
He lost his election, but ran again in the next election. In 1827, he was elected to
the United States House of Representatives. As a Congressman, he became angry about
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President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, which forced Native Americans to
leave their land. He lost his re-election in 1830. However, he ran again in 1832 and
won.
In 1834, he wrote a book about himself called A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett.
Written by Himself. He lost his re-election to Congress that year.
Texas Revolution
The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Jenkins Onderdonk depicts Davy Crockett swinging
his rifle at Mexican troops who have breached the south gate of the mission.
Around December 1834, Crockett told some of his friends that he might move to Texas
if Martin Van Buren became the next president of the United States. The next year, he
talked to his friend Benjamin McCulloch about going to Texas, which belonged
to Mexico at that time, with some people to fight in a Texas Revolution against Mexico.
Van Buren was elected president, so he left Tennessee on Nov. 1, 1835 with three other
men to go to Texas, saying, "You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
He arrived in Nacogdoches, Texas, in early January 1836. On January 14, 1836,
Crockett and 65 other men signed an oath before Judge John Forbes to the Provisional
Government of Texas for six months that said "I have taken the oath of government and
have enrolled my name as a volunteer and will set out for the Rio Grande in a few days
with the volunteers from the United States." Each man was promised about
4,600 acres (19 km²) of land.
He showed up at the Alamo on February 8. There were over 100 other men there. On
February 23, a Mexican army, led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna,
surrounded the Alamo, ready to take it over. After the Mexican army had been there for
eight days, 32 other men showed up to help Crockett and the other men defending the
Alamo.
On March 6. According to Susana Dickinson, before running to his post, Crockett
stopped in the chapel to pray. When the Mexican soldiers made it over the walls of the
Alamo they pushed the few remaining defenders back toward the church. The Battle of
the Alamo lasted almost 90 minutes. All of the men defending the Alamo died,
including Davy Crockett.
Legacy
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