Victory at the Alamo: How the Texans Could Have Won

Conventional wisdom has long held that the Alamo defenders were so outnumbered, outgunned, or low on supplies and ammunition that the success of their efforts to defend the mission was doomed from the start. The immense size of the compound (an area totaling over three and a half acres) has also been cited as a decisive factor. The fall of the Alamo has been almost universally regarded as a foregone conclusion, apparently without serious question. Outstanding historians and Alamo scholars h...