Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would ...

Nevertheless, the Army of Operations reached San Antonio in February of 1836. The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound.

The Alamo' is entertaining for its action, scale, and scope, but it was also rife with historical inaccuracies.

Eleven days later, the Alamo's small group of Texian (Texan) defenders were defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Army. Advertisement In 1903, the United States was granted a lease "in perpetuity" on ...

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 ...

On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell to the Mexican army after 13 days under siege. General Santa Anna launched an early morning assault on the mission; the battle lasted ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Column From Sen. Robert Nichols On March 6, 1836, the Alamo fell to the Mexican army after thirteen days under siege. General  Santa Anna launched an early ...

After many hard-fought battles were lost by Texans (including the Alamo in San Antonio), Gen. Sam Houston, Houston's namesake, strategically planned his next attack against the Mexican Army.

The story of the famed siege of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution, in which a small band of soldiers held off an overwhelming army under the Mexican general Santa Anna long enough to allow the ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle ...

Nevertheless, the Army of Operations reached San Antonio in February of 1836. The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound.