2. Davy Crockett
Davy Crockett is known as “The King of Wild Frontier,” but he had no claims to monarchy. He served in Congress, where he vehemently opposed the policies of President Andrew Jackson, and was a vocal opponent of the Indian Removal Act. When he was not re-elected to Congress in 1835, Crockett left to join the Texas Revolution in the then-State of “Tejas,” under Mexico. There, he joined the army of revolutionaries, where Anglo-Americans fought side by side with Hispanics like Antonio Menchaca, all of whom were determined to liberate Texas from Mexico. Each man who fought was promised 4,600 acres of land as a payment for his service. They were adventurers, and they acted with their own individual self-interest in mind, but they did not embroil the American government in their private little war.
Davy Crockett died defending the Alamo, and he is known as a Texas war hero. However, technically, what he did violated the same Neutrality Act that was used against Aaron Burr.
