In July, the Alamo Trust will launch a new phase of the $550 million Alamo Plan, aiming to restore the historic battle's ...

A tiny coterie of authors have produced more than one standard book on Texas history. Stephen L. Hardin is among them. In 1989, Hardin wrote "Texian Iliad: A Military History ...

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No, I did not fight at the Alamo, at least not in Texas. I arrived a little too late and missed it by at least a few decades.

Six weeks later on April 21, led by Sam Houston’s army and shouting "Remember the Alamo," the Texans defeated Mexican forces at the Battle of San Jacinto, capturing Santa Anna and forcing the ...

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 ...

On Aug. 18, 1813, some 1,400 people died at the Battle of Medina and during the ... the field A young officer named Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was among the triumphant troops and presumably ...