The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound. A twelve-day siege ended in a bloody battle on March 6 in which Santa Anna and his ...

who spent two days in the town before his famed journey to the Alamo. Objects like nails, knives, glass and ceramics, along with traces of a log cabin used as Sam Houston's presidential office ...

Cornwall commissioned and sold several homes in the Alamo Square District in the late 1800s, including 390 Page St., which was purchased for $7,000 by Peter Difley, an Irish bricklayer and ...

But downtown development in the late 1800s enveloped the original site, Alamo spokesperson Emily Baucum tells Axios. The goal ...

The Alamo’s been there for 300 years ... no more than 200 Americans were surrounded and then overrun by at least 1,800 Mexican soldiers under the command of Santa Anna following a 13-day ...

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Built as Mission San Antonio de Valero's chapel in 1718, and renamed The Alamo in the early 1800s, this "Shrine of Texas Liberty" has a long and colorful history. Occupied by five independent ...

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By Heather Knight Every weekend, a flea market in Alamo, Texas, transforms from a ... Saunas in the state, part of a tradition with roots in the 1800s, have been especially popular since the ...