The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th ...

Houston and his army attacked and shouted "Remember the Alamo" and "Remember Goliad!" as they wiped out most of the Mexican troops. In a battle that lasted 18 minutes, Mexican infantry surrendered ...

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ...

In Exodus from the Alamo, Tucker, author of Westerners in Gray (2007 ... While it's long been known that some of the garrison attempted to escape as the Mexican infantry overran the improvised ...