Davy Crockett the soldier and statesman. Traditional Cache
Davy Crockett the soldier and statesman.
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Davy Crockett is more than the Alamo, he was a statesman and a very respected military figure. The later of the two is what he is remembered for in the history books and lead to his death defending the Alamo.
David Crockett 1813, He began his military career in September of that year, when he enlisted in the militia as a scout under Major Gibson in Winchester, Tennessee, to avenge an Indian attack on Fort Mimms, Alabama. On May 21, 1815, Crockett was elected a lieutenant in the Thirty-second Militia regiment of Franklin County. Before summer's end he married Elizabeth Patton, a widow with two children (George and Margaret Ann), and he explored Alabama in the fall with an eye towards settlement. He nearly died from malaria-was reported dead-and astonished his family with his "resurrection. Building in part upon his growing notoriety, Crockett defeated the incumbent Fitzgerald in 1833 to return to Congress. The following year he published his autobiography, written with the help of Thomas Chilton, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee. After the 1818 Chickasaw cession of West Tennessee (known in Kentucky as Jackson Purchase) Davy Crockett moved to the South Fork Obion River, until his later move to Texas.
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