The Alamo Exhibit

When I visited the Alamo exhibit at the Walker Education Center, I learned several things about the Alamo that I didn't know before. One of the most fascinating parts of the exhibit was the information about Juan N. Seguin. I had never heard much about him, and I thought it was tragic that he was a supporter of the Texas Revolution, but he was later exiled from Texas as a traitor and forced to flee back to Mexico as a "man without a country." I thought this was sad, because he fought f0r Texas independence and was a real Texas hero, but did not get the recognition he deserved. I also found it interesting that as legend has it no one survived the siege on the Alamo. But this turns out to be false, an Anglo-Texan women and her child as well as several other Tejano women and one man who pretended to be a prisoner, and also that Travis' slave Joe was set free by the Mexicans because they opposed slavery. The Alamo has come to represent more than a small battle in the Texas Revolution, it has been glorified as a stand against tyranny and a brave act of defiance by the defenders. The Alamo has even been considered as important of a battle as Thermopolye.