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The Alamo Definition of the Alamo. Definition: The Battle of the Alamo was a 13 day siege at a mission in San Antonio that was fought between February 23, 1836  March 6, 1836 by Mexican forces of about 4000, under President General Santa Anna, against a handful of 180 American rebels fighting for Texan independence from Mexico.
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- The Battle of the Alamo In December 1835, in the early stages of Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan (or Texian) volunteers led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam overwhelmed the Mexican garrison at the Alamo and captured the fort, seizing control of San Antonio.
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List of Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo Santa Anna led an army to San Antonio de Bexar, arriving on February 23, 1836, and immediately initiating a siege of the Alamo, which housed Texian Army troops. As the Mexican Army had approached San Antonio, several of the Alamo defenders brought their families into the Alamo to keep them safe.
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Battle of Palmito Ranch The Palmito Ranch Battlefield preserves the location of the last battle of the American Civil War. Today the area is relatively unchanged and the marshy, windswept prairies are almost the same as they were in 1865. Over 5,400 acres (2,200 ha) are protected under the National Register of Historic Places list.
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Battle of the Alamo Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio Lopez lópez De Santa anna launched an assault on The Alamo mission Near San antonio De (bexar-béxar Modern Day, San, Antonio Texas), united states killing all Of the. texian defendersithin Mexico, the battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War of 1846–48. In 19th-century Texas, the Alamo complex gradually became known as a battle site rather than a former mission.
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Davy Crockett never lived in Alamo Heights According to a chronology on the website of the Alamo, www.thealamo.org, former U.S. Rep. David Crockett arrived Feb. 8, 1836, in San Antonio de Bexar. The siege of the Alamo began Feb. 23 of that year; Crockett died as a result of its fall March 6, 1836. “I've never heard of this ‘Crockett hut' before,” says Bruce Winders, historian and curator for the Alamo.
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What caused the Battle of the Alamo? During the Texan War for Independence, there was a battle at the  Alamo Mission in south-central Texas in 1836 because of the Mexican  intent to seize the Alamo (and San Ant…onio) in pursuit of full  control of their Texas territory.
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List of Texian survivors of the Battle of the Alamo When the Battle of the Alamo ended at approximately 6:30 a.m. on March 6, 1836, fewer than fifty of the almost 250 Texians who had occupied the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas, were alive.
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- On this day in 1836, in San Antonio, Texas, Colonel William Travis issues a call for help on behalf of the Texan troops defending the Alamo, an old Spanish mission and fortress under attack by the Mexican army. A native of Alabama, Travis moved to the Mexican state of Texas in...
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Charles Willson PealeAmerican Painter, Engraver and Scientist1741 - 1827 George Brown, Alamo defender, was born in England in 1801. He immigrated to America and lived in Yazoo, Mississippi, before settling in Gonzales, Texas. He was one of four George Browns in the Texas army during the Texas Revolution. He died in the battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836.
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Battle of San Jacinto April 21, 1836 The Battle of San Jacinto, fought on  April 21, 1836, in present-day Harris County, Texas, was the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. Led by General Sam Houston, the Texian Army engaged and defeated General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army in a fight that lasted just 18 minutes.
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- Battle of the Alamo - Handbook of Texas Online Survivors: Alamo Noncombatants - Handbook of Texas Online History of Alamo structure itself, from the mission's origins, through the famous siege and battle, and up to present including disputes over who should manage the site.
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Texas Revolution The Battle of the Alamo was the most famous battle in the Texas Revolution. A small group of 180 Americans, led by William B. Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crocket battled against the force of a 4000 Mexican army led by General Santa Anna.
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Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo The Texas campaign, including the Battle of the Alamo, was soon overshadowed by the Mexican-American War of the 1840s. In the 1960s, the battle was often used as a historical parallel to the Vietnam War.
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Battle Of The Alamo The Alamo: 13 Days of Glory. February 23, 1836, began the siege of the Alamo, a 13-day moment in history that turned a ruined Spanish mission in the heart of downtown San Antonio, Texas, into a shrine known and revered the world over.
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- Ten years after Texas won its independence and shortly after it was annexed by the United States, U.S. soldiers revived the Remember the Alamo! battle cry while fighting against Mexican forces in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848.
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- The last major battle of the Civil War took place at the Battle of Palmito Ranch (also called Battle of Palmito Hill) ; fought on the banks of the Rio Grande, about 12 miles east of Brownsville Texas, May 12 - 13, 1865.
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Battle of the Alamo In the early morning hours of March 6, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. After repulsing two attacks, Texians were unable to fend off a third attack. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most of the Texian soldiers withdrew into interior buildings.
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- The final battle of the American Civil War was at Palmito Ranch, Texas, on May 19, 1865; it was a month after the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia.
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The Alamo  (1960 film) The film depicts the Battle of the Alamo and the events leading up to it. Sam Houston leads the forces fighting for Texas independence and needs time to build an army. The opposing Mexican forces, led by General Santa Anna, are numerically stronger and also better armed and trained.
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SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO On April 21, 1836, at the Battle of San Jacinto, a rag-tag band of 783 Texans achieved an improbable and almost unbelievable victory over a Mexican army of more than 1,500 troops.The victorious Texas army was led by General Sam Houston.he defeated Mexicans were under the command of General Santa Anna, the President of Mexico. The Texanns' surprise attack caught the Mexican emcampment off guard. The Texans shouted Remember the Alamo and Remember Goliad as they charged the unsuspecting Mexicans.
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Battle of Palmito Ranch Today, the Palmito Ranch Battlefield preserves the location of the last battle of the American Civil War. The area has remained relatively unchanged, with the marshy, windswept prairies almost the same as they were in 1865.
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alamo Alamo - a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico San Antonio - a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers
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Siege of the Alamo Siege of the Alamo. The Siege of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) describes the first thirteen days of the Battle of the Alamo. On February 23, Mexican troops under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna entered San Antonio de Bexar, Texas and surrounded the Alamo Mission.
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- Beginning in the early 1800s, Spanish military troops were stationed in the abandoned chapel of the former mission. Because it stood in a grove of cottonwood trees, the soldiers called their new fort “El Alamo” after the Spanish word for cottonwood and in honor of Alamo de Parras, their hometown in Mexico.