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 ...

In 1836, at the Alamo 181 Texas Rebels led by Jim Bowie, Davy Crokett and Col. William Travis make a heroic last stand against the Mexican army of several thousand men led by General Santa Anna.

On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell to the Mexican army after 13 days under siege. General Santa Anna launched an early morning assault on the mission; the battle lasted 90 minutes. All defenders of the ...

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 ...

After many hard-fought battles were lost by Texans (including the Alamo in San Antonio), Gen. Sam Houston, Houston's namesake, strategically planned his next attack against the Mexican Army.