The Heroic Case of Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett was known to be an American folk hero, a frontiersman, soldier, and politician; commonly referred to in popular culture as a "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution. He was a man of great powers who stood his ground. A man who knew what it meant to be a solider: one who fights as part of an organized land-based armed force. However, this is why it is evident that it is no way on earth that Davy Crockett a man who many knew to be a “King” of Wild Frontier and a soldier would have ever surrender to anyone who came into his area and begun a war; Crockett went down “swinging ole’ Besty’’ in the heat of the battle.

In document 3 it states that “not one soldier showed signs of desiring to surrender, and with fierceness and valor they died fighting”. It is evident that this document fits the idea of Crockett dying while swinging ole’ besty. The document gives off that feel that the soldiers and Crockett where not letting anyone come into their territory without a fight. They were fierce (violently hostile or aggressive in temperament) meaning that it was time to protect themselves and whatever was theirs. In document 2 it states the death of how many men were killed (70) and how many were wounded (200). It is to say that if these men and Crockett were not fighting their hearts out it will have been more killings then wounds. Crockett however was determine to protect his men, even if that meant him dying. He didn’t surrender but instead he fought until he took his last breath.