Santa Anna entered the city of San Antonio with a part of his army . ... accompanied the Curate , Don Refugio de la Garza , who , by Santa Anna's orders , had assembled during the night at a temporary fortification erected in Potrero ...
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary.
Forget the Alamo provocatively explains the true story of the battle against the backdrop of Texas's struggle for independence, then shows how the sausage of myth got made in the Jim Crow South of the late nineteenth and early twentieth ...
"Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days.
Discusses how in 1836, a small group of defenders at the Alamo fought to the death against thousands of Mexican soldiers during the Texas Revolution.
Vivid storytelling brings American history to life and place readers in the shoes of twelve people who experienced an iconic moment of U.S. history - the Battle of the Alamo.
Although The Alamo fell in the early morning of March 6, 1836, the death of the Alamo defenders has come to symbolize courage and sacrifice for the cause of liberty....
It was uncovered by William C. Davis in the Archivo Historical Mexicano Militar during research for his book Three Roads to the Alamo. Davis's discovery was significant in a number of ways. Ramirez y Sesma's reports confirm information ...
Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution James E. Crisp. New Narratives in American History Series Editors James West Davidson Michael B. Stoff Sleuthing the Alamo Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other ...
Describes the battle of the Alamo in 1836 as Mexican soldiers overwhelmed the Texan Alamo defenders, and explains what the battle symbolizes today.
The Battle of the Alamo is about to be fought again in this thriller by the USA Today-bestselling author .