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The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a pivotal event and military engagement in the Texas Revolution.Following a 13-day siege, Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar (modern-day San Antonio, Texas, United States).
1836 Facts about the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence. Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing Company. ISBN 1-882810-35-X. Roberts, Randy; Olson, James S. (2001). A Line in the Sand: The Alamo in Blood and Memory. The Free Press. ISBN 0-684-83544-4. Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast (1985). Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience ...
The siege of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was 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.
Nofi, Albert A. (1992), The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836: Heroes, Myths, and History, Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, Inc., ISBN 0-938289-10-1 Petite, Mary Deborah (1999), 1836 Facts about the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence , Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing Company, ISBN 1-882810-35-X
Although Albert Martin's body was likely burned and his ashes scattered in Texas by the Mexican troops, the cenotaph memorializes his death at the Martin family plot in Providence. A later plaque at the Alamo incorrectly stated that Martin was from Tennessee. [10] In 2012 Albert Martin was inducted in the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. [11]
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
In 1843 former Texas Ranger and amateur historian John Henry Brown wrote and published the first history of the battle, a pamphlet called The Fall of the Alamo. He followed this in 1853 with a second pamphlet called Facts of the Alamo, Last Days of Crockett and Other Sketches of Texas. No copies of the pamphlets have survived. [30]
From Davy Crockett's fate to the real racial mix of soldiers "there are a lot of inaccuracies in the movie," says one historian of the famed Western, released on Oct. 24, 1960.