British M1796
Wanted to bump this, and hope to bring perhaps some new views.
One thing I seem to have overlooked is that there was a large volume of the M1796 light cavalry sabers which became surplus after the end of the Napoleonic campaigns. Also in 1821, about the time the new model light cavalry sabers were introduced, Great Britain was selling off huge numbers of guns to the Mexican army. In these notable transactions there was likely a degree of other weapons including swords which may have gone into Mexican context.
Texas in these times was of course part of Mexico, and in the American frontiers it is known M1796 sabers were known, even being used by numbers of Indian tribes.
While not of great significance overall, it is just a matter of curiosity on what swords, however few, might have been at the Alamo. As has been noted, the Starr sabers of 1812 are known to have been in use by Texians in the campaigns of 1835-36, so it seems possible that a few were there.
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