“it didn’t start necessarily after the Alamo battle.” Speaking of the downtown shrine, the Alamo has its own Santa Anna sword, though it’s a much simpler presentation blade given to Santa ...

In the aftermath of the battle, Texians exaggerated Mexican casualties while Santa Anna underreported them. Historian Thomas Ricks Lindley, author of Alamo Traces, used numerous Mexican sources ...

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 ...

But fighting alongside them during the battle were nearly 200 more ... Mexican soldiers, under General Antonio López de Santa Anna, attacked the Alamo from different directions.

In the surprise attack, Houston led 900 troops to fight Santa Anna's 1,600 men. Shouting, "Remember the Alamo!" the Texas Army won the battle at San Jacinto "in 18 minutes" and "secured Texas ...

Using “Remember the Alamo” as their battle cry, the Texian Army under Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna six weeks later in the Battle of San Jacinto, leading to the Republic of Texas ...

The theory is supported by Mexican officers' accounts that Crockett was among several Alamo defenders dispatched after the ...

The Battle of the Alamo holds a heroic place in American ... along with 188 other patriots in the cause of Texas independence. General Santa Anna’s vastly superior force overran the fort on ...