The Battle of The Alamo
The Battle of The Alamo
The Battle of The Alamo
Introduction
The Alamo is located in San Antonio TX (map)
The Texas war for independence from Mexico (Febr23-March6,1836)
Texians raised this homemade white flag with the image of a black
cannon and a star. Then they fired their cannon at the Mexican camp,
they were outnumbered and outgunned so Castaneda led his troops back
to the Alamo
The Battle of Alamo
Early stages of the war (December, 1835) a group of Texan volunteers
(led by George Collinsworth and Benjamin Milam) overwhelmed the
Maxican garrison at the Alamo
By mid February, 1836, Colonel James Bowie and Colonel William B.
Travis had taken command of Texan forces in San Antonio
Sam Houston argued that San Antonio should be abandoned due to
insufficient troop numbers
BUT! The Alamo defenders (led by Bowie and Travis) were willing to fight
to the last (200 volunteers)
Mexican general: Santa Anna, also known as the Napoleon of the West
led thousands of troops against Texan defenders
Santa Anna ordered his man to take no prisonersonly a few lives were
spared
‘Declaration of Defiance’
„Victory or Death”
Sam Houston decided to fight against the Mexicans after reading the letter
Battle of Alamo became the symbol of courage and heroic resistance for
the Texans
April 21, 1836, Sam Houston and 800 Texans defeated Santa Anna’s
Mexican force of 1500 men at San Jacinto (near to present day Houston)
Today
most of the parts are renovated, or later newly added
more than 2,5 million people visit the Alamo every year
there is also an Alamo Museum which was built for the battle’s 100th
anniversary