Biography of Davy Crockett and the battle of the Alamo.
Date Submitted: 11/20/2004 11:52:47
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 5 pages (1509 words)
Category: / History / North American History
Length: 5 pages (1509 words)
Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett, the son of John and Rebecca Hawkins Crockett, was born on August 17, 1786 in Green County, Tennessee. His descendants traced his paternal family ancestry to Antoine de Crocketagne, a Norman Huguenot. In the 1600s, he fled from Bantry Bay, Ireland, to England. Then someone in his family immigrated to New York in 1709. His family moved to the backwoods and became pioneers, which was a life full of danger and poverty. John, David?…
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…him today as a hero of the Alamo.
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