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The Alamo Cenotaph, also known as The Spirit of Sacrifice, is a monument in San Antonio, Texas, United States, commemorating the Battle of the Alamo of the Texas Revolution, which was fought at the adjacent Alamo Mission. The monument was erected in celebration of the centenary of the battle, and bears the names of those known to have fought ...
The sculpture stands at nearly 65 ft (20 m), and weighs more than 45 tons (40,800 kg). [2] The medium is enameled iron. It is located in the middle of a traffic rotary (the intersection of Losoya, Commerce, Market, and Alamo Streets) in Downtown San Antonio, an area known to international tourists as the location for the San Antonio River Walk (or Paseo del Rio), and the Alamo.
Toribio Losoya (also known as Toribio Losoya, An Unsung Hero of the Alamo, or simply Losoya) [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture depicting the former Mexican soldier and Alamo defender of the same name by local artist William Easley, installed in San Antonio, in the U.S. state of Texas. The statue was donated by the Adolph Coors Co. in 1986 to ...
The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.It was the site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, a pivotal event of the Texas Revolution in which American folk heroes James Bowie and Davy Crockett were killed. [4]
Post Office and Federal Building (San Antonio, Texas), 615 East Houston. The Post Office is a four-story limestone Renaissance Revival building located in the prominent position at the north end of the Alamo Plaza. The building was designed by Ralph Cameron and built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration. The ground floor is rusticated ...
In 1993, Milam's remains were rediscovered near the center of the park, underneath where the gazebo now sits. [12] The remains were exhumed and sent to the University of Texas at San Antonio for archaeological study. They were subsequently reinterred the following year at the base of the Ben Milam Statue, underneath a raised horizontal granite ...
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Statue Height Image Sculptor Completed Location Coordinates Materials Notes m ft Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) 46: 151: Frédéric Bartholdi: 1886: Liberty Island, New York Harbor: copper sheet on metal armature