What legend? The Texans were besieged in the Alamo, put up a stiff fight, and were massacred.
The part about putting up a stiff fight is the legendary part.
They were surprised at sleep, many of them panicked, some deserted already before the battle.
The final assault lasted for around 15 minutes - pretty much as shortly as the battle of Little Big Horn (another legendary massacre).
Americans - by the way - still celebrate the Little Big Horn - their failed attempt of expansionism into territory of native, legitimate inhabitants.
Since "The Gold of Black Hills" ("Złoto Gór Czarnych") trilogy was one of my favourite books in my childhood, I support Sitting Bull, not Custer.
Hoka hey!
[The difference between Kosovo and the Alamo is that Kosovo was a defeat that helped lead to the end of Serbian independence while the Alamo was a defeat that helped to motivate and strengthen the Texan rebels.
Kosovo also motivated and strengthened the Serbians - but unlike the Texans, the Serbians were facing a powerful, well-organized, well-trained enemy with high morale and excellent commanders, who outnumbered the Serbians many times in army size, population size and territory size.
It is thus no surprise that the Turks destroyed Serbia while the poor and demoralized Mexican army did not manage to do the same with Texans.
The real difference is between the Ottoman Empire and Mexico - not between Kosovo and Alamo.
Please note that the Ottoman Empire defeated also the Byzantine Empire and several other states in the same period - not only Serbia.
On the other hand, Mexico never managed to defeat anyone in their history (I don't count Spanish colonies fighting for independence as Mexico).
and the Texans had no intention of becoming Catholic
So there were no Catholics at all among the Texans?
Americans settled Texas but agreed to obey Mexican laws, then refused to obey those laws (in no small part due to their desire to keep slaves, which Mexican law prohibited), and then rebelled violently.
You see - this is very different from the Serbian-Ottoman conflict. Serbians lived in their own land - not in Ottoman territories.
Serbians were not Ottoman citizens who rebelled violently against the Ottoman Empire - it was the Ottoman Empire which invaded the Kingdom of Serbia. First Turkish possessions in Europe were gained by the Ottoman Empire as the result of actions of mercenary Turks in Byzantine service - who were called for help by Byzantine Emperors - occupying land that they had been ordered to recapture for Byzantine Emperor (so Turks disobeyed their Byzantine "employer" and conquered land for themselves, rather than regaining it for the Byzantine Emperor who hired them).
Later they started to expand into both Byzantine lands and lands of other states in the region.
The Turks were the invaders, the Serbians were the legitimate owners of their land.
Thus I support the Serbians in this case.
