At the entrance, waiting in line
"Originally named Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home
to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years.
Construction began on the present site in 1724. In 1793, Spanish
officials secularized San Antonio's five missions and distributed their
lands to remaining Indian residents. These men and women continued to
farm the fields, once the mission's but now their own, and participated
in the growing community of San Antonio."
At the Alamo, a "small band of Texans held out for thirteen days against
the Centralist army of General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
Although the Alamo fell in the early morning hours of March 6, 1836,
the death of the Alamo Defenders has come to symbolize courage and
sacrifice for the cause of Liberty." http://www.thealamo.org
Looking up
Across the street
Kailani
Trellis above the long barrack museum
Long barrack museum
3 comments:
Several movies have been made about the Alamo.
John Wayne was in one of them. Sam Houston from which the city was named after was involved with the events surrounding the Alamo...
I just read about Sam Houston and he's very important to Texas history. After the defeat at the Alamo, he regrouped the Texas army, beat the Mexican forces at San Jacinto, and gained independence for Texas. He was president of the Republic of Texas before it became part of the United States in 1845.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/es/tx/es_tx_houston_1.html
There's a 67-foot statue of Sam Houston in Huntsville, just north of Houston, TX.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dangrdave/6647568103/
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