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If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler ...

The Alamo, originally known as the Mission San Antonio de Valero ... a silent witness to the battles and stories of the past.

The Spanish mission-turned-battleground ... 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero and relocated to its current location six years later, the site that came to be known as the Alamo was one of ...

San Antonio is famous for the historical Spanish missions, Alamo, River Walk, Tower of the Americas and Alamo Bowl. The city hosts the annual San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo, one of the largest in ...

The Alamo in San Antonio, surrounded by a much larger Mexican ... from Mexico in one of the most improbable and consequential battles in world history on April 21, 1836, at San Jacinto.

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.

SAN ANTONIO — Let's start ... especially because the Alamo means a great deal to so many people. It is all at once a memorial, shrine, mission, battleground, burial ground, and more.

There’s more to San Antonio than the Alamo. In fact, the Alamo—originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero — is just one of five beautifully preserved Franciscan missions that ...

Today the Alamo is again the setting for a battle over liberty. Last week San Antonio’s City Council voted 9-2 to authorize the use of eminent domain to take a bar owner’s property because the ...