Nevertheless, the Army of Operations reached San Antonio in February of 1836. The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound.

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle cry ...

The climax of The Alamo is no exception, as the final clash between the garrison and the Mexican army takes place in broad daylight, and each character has a dramatic death which sees them going down ...

Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin shares eyewitness accounts of the “Runaway Scrape,” an often-overlooked event in the Texas Revolution, at the March 7 Alamo Symposium at the Menger Hotel in San ...

Eleven days later, the Alamo's small group of Texian (Texan) defenders were defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Army. Advertisement In 1903, the United States was granted a lease "in perpetuity" on ...

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February ... outside San Antonio by a Mexican army of nearly 2,000 men under ...

a General in the Mexican Army, decides to perform some great act of heroism. He takes his men over the border into Texas and re-captures the Alamo. This upsets the Texans greatly. The Texas ...

Nevertheless, the Army of Operations reached San Antonio in February of 1836. The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound.

Eleven days later, the Alamo's small group of Texian (Texan) defenders were defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Army. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI ...