according to Alamo.org. After moving to Texas from the U.S. in 1830, he became a colonel in the Federal Army of Texas. Bowie arrived at San Antonio on Jan. 19, along with 30 volunteers to defend ...

San Antonio is embarking on a $550 ... The Post's headline read, "Remember the Alamo? Rehab of battle site is latest front in culture war." Because the attraction is a source of Texas pride ...

Could you let us know about the Alamo mission here in San Antonio ... in paying the expenses of the war.” The village to the south of the Alamo was rebuilt after the revolution with the same ...

They just had to win the war ... Alamo itself was originally a Catholic mission called Mission San Antonio de Valero. It was established in 1718 on a different site from the present Alamo. After ...

“Within this context you begin to see that the United States instigated a war,” Saldaña says. “In San Antonio and in Texas, we learn that the Alamo is ... of development after it joined ...

The gently curved “hump” atop the Alamo is the signature not just for the city of San Antonio but also for countless businesses around Texas, from the Valero Alamo Bowl (which takes its name ...

(Besides the Bob Wills song and namesake World War II airplanes) there is yet another San Antonio rose ... There was a rose named after the Alamo, of which a 40-foot bed of 100 bushes was donated ...

The Texas Revolution broke out and escalated; the Alamo became the center of the conflict. On March 6, 1836, after ... San ...

SAN ANTONIO – The Alamo is one ... its independence in April 1836, a month after the 13-day siege at the Alamo. The Battle of the Alamo and the war was fought for many reasons that included ...

SAN ANTONIO ... cannons at the back of The Alamo. "He's still on the back wall. The screams of war reach him," said Rodriguez. Mexican soldiers, under General Antonio López de Santa Anna ...

Established in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero and relocated to its current location six years later, the site that came to be known as the Alamo ... after the Mexican-American War, the ...

SAN ANTONIO — This Sunday is Juneteenth, the anniversary of the official end of slavery in the U.S., and several organizations are offering ways to honor the holiday here in San Antonio.