They were out numbered by Santa Anna's troops but yet they decided to stay and fight and die rather than to surrender to fight at a later date with maybe better odds. To me, that is stupid when someone knows that most likely they will lose and lose a bunch of lives but still choose to do so. And to begin with, texas did not have any legal right to the Alamo since at that time it was still a Mexican terroritory. What the texans did kind of sounds like a blm action to me! The Alamo was not a texas properity at that time period!
Back then they would call that heroism. Same with Normandy. Times they are a-changin'.