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There were too many factual errors designed to create controversy and attract attention to the book. Susannah Dickinson, wife of an Alamo defender, saw Davy Crockett's corpse as she and others were released after the battle. She said he was at the north wall, where he was assigned to defend, and his peculiar coonskin cap was at his side. None of the Mexicans knew what Crockett looked like. When Texans initially captured Santa Anna after San Jacinto they didn't even know that it was the general. Whether Travis actually drew the line in the sand is silly to debate. All 186 Alamo defenders could see the thousands of Mexican troops arriving for the attack. One way or another, the line was drawn. Whether resistance and the sacrifice at the Alamo aided Houston in forming his army is a fair question to debate. But the massacres at Goliad and the Alamo infuriated and inspired the Texans. An army knowing that they will be executed if they surrender fights a bit harder.