texans of spanish, mexican ssent were called tejanos, a dissent e of texans, of texan and mexican dissentre were 11 of them. the 187 were from all walks of life. they were from all different countries. they were not only anglos but tejanos, and two african-americans, two blacks at the alamo, we understand, and they were lawyers, they were frontiersmen, they were shopkeepers, they were young, they were old. there was even a united states congressman at the alamo. his name was david crockett, former congressman from the state of tennessee, and he had gone to texas to help in the revolution and also to see the fortunes he could make as an individual. a lot of reasons why people came to texas, but00 to 187 of them -- 100 to 187 of them were in the alamo to protect that concept of freedom. this is a painting of what the alamo looked like at the time those men were in the alamo. so they entered the alamo, get the sequence of events correct. february 23. they're in the alamo on march 2 when texas declared independence. they were in the alamo for 13 days. the final battle at the alamo was on marc