Having done a bit more research, I'd like to propose this as a possible alternate Alamo event.
The research is from "The Handbook of Texas Online." To Quote:
"The impact of the Goliad Massacre was crucial. Until this episode Santa Anna's reputation had been that of a cunning and crafty man, rather than a cruel one. When the Goliad prisoners were taken, Texas had no other army in the field (see REVOLUTIONARY ARMY), and the newly constituted ad interim government seemed incapable of forming one. The Texas cause was dependent on the material aid and sympathy of the United States. Had Fannin's and Miller's men been dumped on the wharves at New Orleans penniless, homesick, humiliated, and distressed, and each with his separate tale of Texas mismanagement and incompetence, Texas prestige in the United States would most likely have fallen, along with sources of help. But Portilla's volleys at Goliad, together with the fall of the Alamo, branded both Santa Anna and the Mexican people with a reputation for cruelty and aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution."
Adding much manpower would not be correct. According to the Handbook:
"The Texas armies that took the field in the Texas Revolution in 1835-36 had little continuity in membership, leadership, or organization. Virtually all of the participants served as citizen-soldiers. Those who came from the ranks of the Texas colonists demonstrated a militia-like tendency to turn out during crises but then dismiss themselves at apparent lull times or to take off and care for the needs of their farms and families. A total of about 3,700 men joined the army between October 2, 1835 (the battle of Gonzales), and the concluding engagement of the war at San Jacinto on April 21, 1836. Only about 20 percent of the Texas residents who volunteered during this period served more than one stint in the military. Non-reenlistment resulted in the numerical inferiority of the Texas forces in the spring of 1836, particularly at the Alamo and in the Goliad area. The enrollment of about 1,500 recruits from the United States in the period from October through April partially offset this disadvantage in the size of the Texas army. Nevertheless, the army suffered from organizational chaos as well as episodic enrollment, so no commander succeeded in bringing more than a fraction of the full weight of his potential force into battle. A total of 1,300 men saw duty in the fall of 1835, 900 of them in the loosely conducted siege of Bexar.qv Yet, only about a third that number rallied to the call of Benjamin R. Milamqv when the Texans stormed the city from December 5-10. Similarly, more than 1,900 men turned out east of the Colorado River under Sam Houstonqv and other leaders in March and early April 1836, but Houston led a mere 900 or so onto the San Jacinto battlefield. The others had been retained to guard the rear, received or simply took furlough, volunteered too late to make the engagement, deserted, or served with units that had detached themselves from the main army out of disgust with the general's policies."
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# Remember the Alamo!/Remember Goliad! by Bob 'Mettermrck' Kraus # Amended by Theodotus
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name = "Remember the Alamo!/Remember Goliad!"
desc = "In March 1836, Mexican troops, sent in to quell the disturbances in Texas, overran the tiny Texan garrison at the Alamo mission in San Antonio and then executed 342 Texans at Goliad. The incidents aroused the fury of the people of Texas, the United States, and even Great Britain and France, thus considerably promoting the success of the Texas Revolution."
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