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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]
El degüello (Spanish: El toque a degüello) is a bugle call, notable in the United States for its use as a march by Mexican Army buglers during the 1836 Siege and Battle of the Alamo [1] to signal that the defenders of the garrison would receive no quarter by the attacking Mexican Army under General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
The first English-language histories of the battle were written and published by Texas Ranger and amateur historian John Henry Brown. [165] The next major treatment of the battle was Reuben Potter's The Fall of the Alamo, published in The Magazine of American History in 1878. Potter based his work on interviews with many of the Mexican ...
The first major calls to restore parts of the Alamo occurred after 1860, as English-speaking settlers began to outnumber those of Mexican heritage. [2] Likewise, according to Schoelwer, within "the development of Alamo imagery has been an almost exclusively American endeavor" that focuses on the Texian defenders, with less emphasis given to the ...
The Himno de Riego, which was the Spanish anthem during the Trienio Liberal, the First and Second Spanish Republic ends with Vencer o Morir ("Victory or Death" in Spanish) in its refrain. The letter written by commander William Barret Travis " To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World " during the Battle of the Alamo (1836), ends with ...
Alamo, in New York City; Alamo Rent a Car; Alamo Drafthouse Cinema; AA-10 Alamo or Vympel R-27, an air-to-air missile; USS Alamo, a U.S. Navy amphibious assault warship "Alamo", a song by Tori Amos used as a b-side on "Talula" Alamo Game Engine, software from Petroglyph Games
Nofi, Albert A. (1992), The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836: Heroes, Myths, and History, Conshohocken, PA: Combined Books, Inc., ISBN 0-938289-10-1; Petite, Mary Deborah (1999), 1836 Facts about the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence, Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing Company, ISBN 1-882810-35-X
The book had little impact on historical research into the Alamo as it had only a limited printing in Spanish in Mexico, and many researchers did not know it existed. [11] In 1975 the Texas A&M University Press published an English translation of the book, called With Santa Anna in Texas: A Personal Narrative of the Revolution. [10]