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1836, Republic of Texas.

The Mexican territory is hometo thousands of US settlers.

Tensions rise as Comanche and Karankowa

fight to keep their lands.

Outlaws roam free, and slavesare caught in the crossfire.

Mexican General Santa Annabattles to reclaim the land.

US President Andrew Jacksonis hesitant to intervene,

and Texas has no choice but to declare

itself an independent nation.

Outnumbered, General SamHouston's Texas Republic Army

and Steve Austin's Ranging Company

are all that stand between Santa Anna's

tyranny and independence.

Texas in flames, the Alamo in ashes.

Pioneers, Mexicans,Tejanos, Indians, soldiers

have no choice, fight or die.

Viva Santa Anna!

Viva!

Viva!

Viva Mexico!

Viva mi General!

Viva mi General!

Viva!

Viva Mexico!

Vamos!

Vamos!

Sister--

They are not soldiers.

These men are pirates.

Prep rate!

Fuego!

Portilla!

Your Excellency, we findthose women hiding in the crypt.

Shall I take of them also?

Brother Almonte, your opinion?

Let them tell their drunken General Houston

the stories of our triumph.

Excellent.

Ride to General Urrea's battalion,

and order him to attackFort Goliad without delay.

Oh.

Got to get your rest, Sam.

You're so peaked you looklike death eating a cracker.

General.

Any word from the rangers?

No, sir.

I have an army of untrained,undisciplined, ill-equipped

men and not enough of 'em.

That's why I can't sleep.

You got this wound 20-some odd years ago,

and it still festers?

Damn it.

Huh?

Yes.

1814-- Battle of Horseshoe Bend.

Musket ball.

Caught a red stick arrow in the groin there too.

Thanks to the Great Spirit,my manhood remained intact.

Little chips of splintered bone

still working their way out.

I sent Bowie to Travis withan order to blow up the Alamo,

abandon it.

Can't imagine what a trial

it must be to live with this.

Sir, Baker and Sherman arestill waiting to see you.

Much obliged.

Here to be seen seeing me is more like it.

Delegation's arrived tosay, "Attack the Mexicans."

Huh, delegation.

Well, by God, come in thisinstant if not sooner.

There's Juan Segu n too, sir.

With due regard to theurgency of your call, gentlemen,

I hope you don't mind meanswering a call of my own.

General, we mean no ill regard.

We're just curious to what your plan is.

I sent Deaf Smith and his rangering company

to report on the Alamo situation.

Until I hear back, it'd be damned

stupid to fix on any plan.

There's only one plan.

Attack the Alamo.

Moseley, I think you know me better

than to address me like I'msome dumb son of a bitch.

I cannot not imagine your intention

is to abandon those men, sir.

It's what Davy Crockett's promising

to keep their spirits hopeful.

Juan, how many men are we?

374 by this morning's count.

What are our supplies?

Two days of beans, no meat, and we're

certainly short ofmuskets, powder, and shot.

Let me understand this.

You think we ought to attack 5,000

well-armed, well-fed Mexican veterans

supported by artillery.

We do have the element of surprise, sir.

Huh!

It does not matter how many there are.

They are only Mexicans.

Juan!

You're a fool, Moseley.

I should let Segu n here cut your tongue out.

General what if Colonel Fannin's relief column?

George, tell them thestatus on Colonel Fannin.

Our courageous colonelwas on his way to the Alamo

when two wagons brokedown betwixt and between.

So he decided to changecourse and return to Goliad.

That is all the morereason we need to reinforce

Travis and Jim Bowie.

Sam, what would your personalcompunctions lead you to do?

I will tell you what I'm not going to do.

I'm not going to sacrifice whatlittle army I have by charging

pell-mell into Mexican lances.

I will not fight Santa Annathe way he wants us to fight,

nor the way you think I should.

Gentlemen, Texas is struggling to break

free from an oppressive regime.

No.

We must fight for our independence

like George Washington and ourforefathers fought for theirs--

with speed and mobility.

Fall back.

Live to fight another day.

Deaf Smith and his rangershave the right idea.

As your commander, I will decide when

the day is right to do more.

Now that you've beenelucidated, get the hell out!

General.

Juan.

General.

If it means anything, your amigos at the Alamo

call out to me in my dreams.

Ha, whoo!

Whoo

Whoo-hoo!

You still get a buck and two bits a day

working for the army?

Rangers don't workfor the army, Truett.

We're working with the army.

That's right.

They don't give us orders.

They offer us recommendationsand suggestions.

Son, I give you a suggestion, by God, you

best know it's a damn order.

Sir.

Hey, don't expect to getpaid anytime soon, boys.

Texas ain't got no money.

Least not till we runthe-- the bean-eaters out.

No offense, Flores.

You's a good bean-eater.

I like you.

What the hell you say?

Ask him.

Deaf?

Deaf?

What?

Well, after GeneralHouston quit being governor

of Tennessee, is it true thathe lit out for the territory,

took up with a Cherokee squaw, and stayed

drunk for five years?

I don't know he was drunk every day.

Ask him abouthis tender young wife.

What about his tender young wife?

Why'd he leave her and quit being governor?

Those your words, Henry?

"Tender young wife?"

Oh.

I guess she rejected him.

He felt compelled toleave her by honor, Henry.

Mm-hmm.

What I heard is heattacked her unnaturally.

Now, I heard she had the organs of a man--

under the-- oh, yeah, yeah.

That's a good one.

Y'all know I can't hear nothing, and I

certainly can't read your lips.

You're sitting all back there.

Now, nobody knows what happenedbetween the two of them,

but I do know that Sam Houston'snever spoken a word against her

nor is he allowed one spoken in his presence.

What does that tell you?

Reckon it's the same thing it tells you.

That you'll uh-- have a grasp of things a way

we can't sometimes, Erastus.

Let's move out.

Rest time's over, boys.

Saddle up.

General Sam Houston is abetter man than his detractors.

Then why in the hell ain't he

leading his army to help Bowieand Crockett at the Alamo?

When you're half the general he is,

Elwood, maybe then I'll listen to you.

It's called military tactics, Vern.

That's why we're on a scout.

Smoke!

I seen smoke!

Whoa.

Over there, about 20 miles away.

That's the Alamo.

Deaf!

That's the Alamo, boys.

We lost it.

Son of a bitch.

God help us.

Deaf.

They ain't Comanches, is they?

No, Karankawa.

I don't know what they're doing so inland.

Thought they was all killed off.

Hell, Injuns killing Mexicans is fine by me.

So long as they ain't Comanches, right?

Beans, head back.

Inform General Houston the fate of the Alamo.

Now, don't dawdle.

Don't get yourself killed.

The future of Texas is at stake.Come on.

Yes, sir.

- Ride on, Beans. - Ride on, boy.

Beans!

Come on.

Come on.

Hee-yah!

Hee-yah!

Those are women in the wagon.

That cuts it.

Ah!

Yah!

Ah!

No!

Mama!

They got the little girl.

Let's get 'em, Truett.Come on!

We coming for you, darling.

Get on that wagon, Kit!

Zacharias, help the ladies!

I got her.

I got him!

Uh, stay on him, Truett.

Stay up there.

I'm gaining.

Stay up there.

Whoo!

Shoot him, Truett.

I'm loadin', dammit.

Take your shot.

Come on.

I am.

Why don't you shoot him?

I'm tryin'.

Oh, Yance, I got him.

I got him.

You got him.

I got him.

You got him.

Woo.

Nice job.

Woo.

I thought we was goners, boy.

I can't believe I got him.

Well, I would have got him if you hadn't.

Take the scalp.

Well, come on, Truett.

It's your first kill.

You earned it.

I don't need no stinky Injunpelt to prove what I done here.

Hush up.

It ain't for you.

It's for the young 'un.

When she grows up, it'll be a reminder

that justice was done on thesavage that killed her mama.

Go.

Mama.

Woo-hoo.

I don't know what I like better, killing

Redskins or killing Mexicans.

Dammit,,,quit your yammering.

Whoa.

Karnes.

KARNES:.

Oh, no.

You forgot to duck.

I did duck, or this pigsticker would

have stuck me in my chest.

Yup.

What's your name, darlin'?

- Suzanna. - Suzanna what?

Dickinson.

.

He died helping me.

Captain, that woman withthe baby, that's

Dickinson's wife.

Lieutenant at the Alamo.

They were the only survivors.

All right.

Everybody, we've got to move out.

Leave the wagons andthem Injun horses behind.

What for?

Comanches.

Shit.

Don't let her lay eyes on them.

Take the women and the children.

I'll bury Zacharias and this lady.

Save me some poon in Hell, big fella.

Henry, better ride on ahead.

See you down the road.

All right.

Adios, amigo.

Let's go, boys. Moving on.

Rest in peace of Christ.

We'll miss you, sir.

Let's go, boy.

The Alamo has fallen.

Santa Anna has taken the Alamo.

The Alamo is lost.

Santa Anna has taken the Alamo.

The Alamo, we lost the Alamo.

Santa Anna has taken the Alamo.

Gracias.

Deaf.

Sientate.

Guadalupe, I ain't back.

Not yet, I ain't back.

I just come to get the wagon on account

of some women and young 'uns that were

in a slaughter at the Alamo.

They need medical doctoring.

I raced ahead.

They're a few miles back.

Let them stay here.

I'll nurse them and you.

You are too sick to fight.

Come.

No.

No.

Lupe, sit.

I gotta get everybody back to camp.

Fightin' is the only way we got to win this war.

Fighting's all I know.

Houston's counting on us.

I promise you, I will be back before you know it.

My sweet girl,,, get some rest.

Charlemagne done me proud today.

She's tuckered.

You mind giving her agood watering and feeding?

Si.

I got plenty of linens.

You mind hanging on to that for me?

I'll be back.

Hiya.

About 20 years ago, myfirst campaign was in Texas,

serving with General Arredondo who put

down the rebellion.

I call this bird Arredondo.

He's never known defeat.

Look at his eyes, ..

They are mad.

I remember once, Arredondo slaughtered

over 1000 of Americanpirates in Nuevo Tejanos.

Then, he left their corpses to rot in the field,

unburied for all to see and smell.

We left all of Texascovered in tears and ashes,

as a warning to whoever again might raise

their hand against Mexico.

At the time, some of us young officers

thought the General too ruthless,

you know, too unnecessarily cruel.

But we know now we were wrong.

Arredondo was not harsh enough.

And this is why we'refighting today, because he

was not harsh enough.

I will win this battle.

I will win it for you, so 20 years from now,

you'll not have to lead yoursons north to fight this war

again, because Santa Anna,like Arredondo before him,

was not man enough to win it once and for all.

I don't fight for Texas.

I don't care about politics.

Then, why do you fight?

It's in my blood, like this bird.

Does the blood make him stronger?

We'll see.

Only a select few can become champions.

Take this one.

He loves tequila, but rejects my blood.

I call him General Houston.

Fitting, with the blood.

See?

No matter how you train it ordress it up, he's a chicken.

And chickens lose their heads.

They're coming in from the Alamo.

It's the survivors.

Everybody stay back.

Give them room.

You, fetch Doc Ewing.

We got a sickly woman here.

No. No.

- No. - Not to worry.

It's all right. It's all right.

Please.

What I do with this shitbugger, give her to the Doc?

Pack up a bed roll in my tent.

We'll see come morning.

Now I'm a damn nursemaid.

Stand back.

Get out of the way.

Ma'am?

Ma'am, it's all right.

It's all right, ma'am.

Give me your hand.

Please, ma'am.

Come with me.

Captain?

Thank you.

You all right?

What happened?

Where's Zacharias?

And Anderson?

Anderson stayed back to bury Zacharias.

Zacharias.

You sure?

Yeah.

Got to be Comanches.

I knew it was Comanches.

Fellas, were it Comanches?

Nah.

.

Deaf, we going to the Alamo?

None of your business.

Deaf, ain't we going to goto the aid of our patriots?

That's up to Sam Houston, son.

Who's she?

Out of the way.

Deaf, what's going on, Deaf?

What about Travis?

.

Dead.

All dead, boys.

General.

General Houston, this here's Emily West.

Herself and Captain Dickinson's wife were

among the few Alamo survivors.

Ma'am.

Miss West.

Water.

Santa Anna took no prisoners.

We were spared to carry his message.

He'll show no mercy,killing all who oppose him.

Plans to poison the wells and fields

so that people never return.

Burn every bridge, everysettlement, every building.

Santa Anna has ordered General Urrea to attack

Goliad for his next slaughter.

Mexicans attacking Goliad.

He mocks you to his men.

He named a chicken after you.

It's not wrong you survived.

Chris, I just heard.

Santa Anna will show no mercy.

Tom, I got news.

Santa Anna is moving 500 men on Goliad, 500 men.

He's attacking Goliad.

I heard he named a damnchicken after our general.

Goliad's next.

Slithering snake son of abitch means to wipe us out.

It's all messed up.

Ma'am, we gonna get you in a medical tent

and get some food in your belly.

You should know, they heldout 12 days waiting for you.

Last thing I heard ColonelTravis yell was, no surrender.

God dammit.

Was I not appointed to lead all Texian

forces, as Commander in Chief?

Was I? Yes, sir.

Then why didn't they obey

my order to abandon the Alamo?

I should have gone myself.

You can't let their sacrifice be in vain.

Their precious blood bought us precious time.

Let us not squander it.

Deaf, as a loyal Texiancitizen and foremost authority

on this land, I'd value your opinion about now.

Deaf, do you understand me?

I'm deaf, not dumb.

San Antone is too close to Mexico

proper to reinforce, too farfrom American settlements

to defend.

We ought to move north ofVictoria, marshal our forces,

let Santa Anna get drunk onan abundance of confidence.

And then, General, we attack with a vengeance.

If only I had 300 more Rangers like you,

I'd win this war in a day.

I want you to ride to Goliad.

And one more time, instructColonel Fannin to abandon

his position there post haste and rendezvous

with us at Victoria.

Make sure he understands he'll be

all by his lonesome with enemy troops

up his ass within the week.

Tell him this time I said, please.

Yes, sir.

I'll tell him.

Ready the men.

Tomorrow, first light, we march to Victoria.

Prepare to retreat.

Pass the word. We retreat.

Pass the word.

Sarah.

Mama taught me to ease a woman's burden

every chance I got.

Yeah?

Well, she should have taught younot to be such a horse's ass.

Pardon my crassfriend's language, ma'am.

Thank you, Truett. Thank you, Yancy.

But unless you're injured,you're not allowed

inside the medical tent.

Well, I got a seriouscut on my elbow some place.

And I'm pretty sure it needs some liniment.

Yeah?

Well, I have a badly bruised heart.

Stop horsing around likenothing happened today.

We didn't want to scare you, Sarah.

It's tragic sad about Zacharias.

Don't fret about us.

Truett here got his first scalp.

Should have told her right away instead

of trying to curry favor.

It was your bruised heartmaneuver that set her off.

She was going to treat my elbow.

Treat your goddamn elbow.

She was.

Quiet down, boys.

We got sick people here.

Don't push me.

You got me in trouble.

Noel?

Hell you going, private?

Don't rightly know.

You desertin'?

The Army needs you, soldier.

Looky there.

That's a wolf.

More like a wolf dog.

Come over here.

Say howdy.

He's been following us.

He ain't coming.

Hey, that's my personal rabbit.

It's requisitioned.

That's a damn jackrabbit?- Yeah.

Smells like three-day-old possum.

Pilfers a rabbit and complains.

I seasoned that rabbit just right.

Come on, boy.

Look what I got for you.

Looky here.

Come on.

That mongrel's going to bite your arm clean off.

Come on.

Now I know why they callyou Beans, because that's

the only thing you can cook.

He don't like your cookings, Beans.

I saw that dog lick its own ass.

He don't know.

Cap'n?

Cap'n?

Cap'n?

Young Truett here isgrievously worried about his ma

and requests a short leave of absence.

It's my mother and my sisters, sir.

And, well, since I lost my daddyto typhoid three years ago,

now I'm the only man of the house.

Yeah.

And with that cutthroatSanta Anna marching north,

well, The Fincham familyranch is right in his path.

Yeah.

I just want to make sure they moved out.

And shouldn't take me morethan a day or two just

to get them someplace safe.

And I request to go with him,Cap'n, make sure he comes back.

Boy can hardly wipehisself without my council.

Oh, shut up.

Just want to run into some more Injuns

so he can get a scalp like mine, sir.

That all of it, then?

One day.

I'll give you all one day.

Then you meet us in Goliad.

- Get. - Sir.

Sir.

We'll leave in the morningand get there by noon.

You a part of StephenAustin's rangering company?

Glad your back, Billy.

Who's asking?

Name's Beauregard.

I hear tell you might need an extra hand.

Looks like you could use one, too, Red.

My mama would throw that inthe pot with the cayenne pepper

and call it gumbo.

You from Louisiana?

Crawled up from the bayou.

Call me Gator, Gator Davis.

Thought you was Beauregard.

Gator Davis Beauregard, Esq.

I'm of a mind to join your outfit.

You want to help Texas, go join the army.

Lord, no.

Flat feet ain't suited for marching.

Want to ranger around withy'all, help citizens directly.

Gotta furnish your own horse and gun.

Pays $1.25 a day, payable whenever

Austin raises the funds.

Let's see what he's made of, first.

Okie dokie by me.

Introduce yourself to the fellers.

That's all.

Private, halt. I'm sorry tobother you, Mrs. Dickinson.

Can you tell me, how manycannons did Santa Anna bring?

How many soldiers?

Kill him.

Kill 'em all.