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Remember the Alamo - 6 March 1836

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Subject: Remember the Alamo - 6 March 1836
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:45:33 -0600
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by: David Carson - Wed, 6 Mar 2024 17:45 UTC

On this day 188 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 Barret
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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Remember the Alamo - 6 March 1836	David Carson