History Main / RememberTheAlamo

* A particularly grim example during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the battle cry of "Remember Cawnpore". The [[UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest British East India Company garrison]] at Cawnpore (now Kanpur) under General Wheeler surrendered to Indian rebels under Nana Sahib on the explicit promise that they would be granted safe passage to Allahabad. Sahib promptly reneged on this promise and massacred virtually all of the British force as they tried to leave the city. More horrific, however, was the subsequent massacre of several hundred women and children at the Bibighar in Cawnpore; when rebel Sepoy troops protested at being ordered to kill women and children, Sahib's advisors simply hired local butchers to finish the job with cleavers and dump the corpses in a well. The massacre outraged many Indians who would otherwise have supported Sahib (it's said the women of his household went on hunger strike in protest), and provoked a series of [[RoaringRampageofRevenge extremely]] [[CrushingThePopulace brutal]] [[DisproportionateRetribution reprisals]] from the British.

* ''Lightnovel/FullMetalPanic'' uses "Remember Pearl Harbor"- said by the captain of the ''USS Pasadena''. It results in his Japanese-American XO facepalming in despair.

* In ''Series/TheExpanse'' the destruction of the Canterbury, apparently by Mars, spurs "Remember the Cant" a rallying cry that unifies the Outer Rim colonies against the Martian Congressional Republic. [[spoiler: The destruction of the Canterbury was actually a Main/FalseFlagOperation by the Protogen corporation to distract the Earth and Mars from their other illicit activities.]]

ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway (well, actually Texas in 1836) roughly two hundred colonists [[LastStand stood their ground]] against an entire army (the Mexican one, that is) and did so for almost two straight weeks, until every defender was killed. William Travis, James Bowie, and UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett were the three men who orchestrated their defense against the ensuing onslaught of Santa Anna and his men, and since then The Alamo has been a nationally revered moment of American bravery for the entire country, but especially the people of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, who [[EverythingIsBigInTexas tend to exaggerate the scale of the conflict]]. (What's not brought up as often is that they were also doing it so [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil independent Texas could own slaves]].[[note]]However, unlike, say [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the American Civil War]], there were legitimately a lot of other issues prompting the revolution. Arguably the biggest was Texas's great distance from the capital Mexico City and the growing distrust of the Mexican government. Most of Mexico's northern territories attempted to secede at around the same time, but only Texas's revolution succeeded.[[/note]])

ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway (well, actually Texas in 1836) roughly two hundred colonists [[LastStand stood their ground]] against an entire army (the Mexican one, that is) and did so for almost two straight weeks, [[KillEmAll until every defender was killed.]] William Travis, James Bowie, and UsefulNotes/DavyCrockett were the three men who orchestrated their defense against the ensuing onslaught of Santa Anna and his men, and since then The Alamo has been a nationally revered moment of American bravery for the entire country, but especially the people of UsefulNotes/{{Texas}}, who [[EverythingIsBigInTexas tend to exaggerate the scale of the conflict]]. (What's not brought up as often is that they were also doing it so [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil independent Texas could own slaves]].[[note]]However, unlike, say [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar the American Civil War]], there were legitimately a lot of other issues prompting the revolution. Arguably the biggest was Texas's great distance from the capital Mexico City and the growing distrust of the Mexican government. Most of Mexico's northern territories attempted to secede at around the same time, but only Texas's revolution succeeded.[[/note]])

* The name of the Sons of Korhal resistance group in ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' recalls a planet [[OrbitalBombardment nuked from orbit]] by the Confederacy they fight again. Their leader, Arcturus Mengsk, is quite fond of pointing out the millions of people killed in his speeches decrying the old regime. (To the point that one of his allies snidely asks if that's "[[HeWhoFightsMonsters a target number]]". [[FalseReassurance It isn't]] -- [[KillEmAll Mengsk has his sights set way higher]].)

* A particularly grim example during the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the battle cry of "Remember Cawnpore". The [[UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest British East India Company garrison]] at Cawnpore (now Kanpur) under General Wheeler surrendered to Indian rebels under Nana Sahib on the explicit promise that they would be granted safe passage to Allahabad. Sahib promptly reneged on this promise and massacred virtually all of the British force as they tried to leave the city. More horrific, however, was the subsequent massacre of [[KillEmAll several hundred women and children]] at the Bibighar in Cawnpore; when rebel Sepoy troops protested at being ordered to kill women and children, Sahib's advisors simply hired local butchers to finish the job with cleavers and dump the corpses in a well. The massacre outraged many Indians who would otherwise have supported Sahib (it's said the women of his household went on hunger strike in protest), and provoked a series of [[RoaringRampageofRevenge extremely]] [[CrushingThePopulace brutal]] [[DisproportionateRetribution reprisals]] from the British.