On this day 187 years ago, the Mexican army commanded by Generalissimo
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna attacked a garrison of fewer than 200 Texian
defenders who had taken up a position inside a former Spanish mission in
San Antonio called the Alamo. The attack came at the end of a 13-day
siege, during which time the Texian commander, Lt. Colonel William Barrett
Travis, sent out multiple appeals for aid. All of the defenders were
killed, but Santa Anna lost up to a thousand men in the battle. News of
the defenders' bravery and valor spread, along with Travis's posthumous
appeals, inspiring men to come to the aid of the Texian cause.

Six weeks later, the Texian army led by General Sam Houston defeated
Santa Anna in a surprise attack at San Jacinto, near present-day
Houston. Their battle cry: "Remember the Alamo!"

David Carson

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Uh...what the heck was "The Alamo" ??? (Indeed, I forgot.)

Now, it wouldn't possibly be an overproduced flick featuring one of John Wayne's most overwrought roles, over-playing, uh, Kit Carson or Daniel Boone or Annie Oakley* or Johnny Appleseed or maybe some OTHER 19th Century frontiersperson, would it?

Even more confused and conflated than usual,
BRYAN STYBLE/Florida
==================* Well, at least Wayne could have played her here in the gender-obliterating 21st Century. (And if doing so, Wayne SURELY would have been more convincing than was Cate Blanchett as [the 1966ish iteration of] The Guy with the Funny Nose, the Funnier Hair and the Funniest Voice in that cinematic extended-joke, "I'm Not There".

All historical kidding aside, a one-question calendar quiz:

What day of the week did it all come to a head in what is today downtown San Antonio, that fateful March 6, 1836?
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Answer: a Sunday. (Just as were both Waterloo and The Battle of New Orleans a couple decades earlier.)