https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bowie
has been hacked to say "Bowie renounced his american citizenship and had agreed to give all his whiles to the spanish for debt". NONE OF THAT IS TRUE
WHAT IS TRUE is Bowie traveled to Washington to convince them that more troops were needed to protect the South from Spanish Military Invasion. He got sympathy but not support - and went on his way back to Texas, nearly directly to his death at the Alamo
It was a sad lost and remembered as a moment when the North shunned it's duties to protect the borders because they were "too busy" (were building forts all over the usa, but still denied aid to a known oncoming enslaught)