SAN ANTONIO — The Alamo once again drew many visitors – this time, for the commemoration of "Dawn at the Alamo." The sunrise ceremony was held Sunday morning amid cloudy skies. The free ...

The early morning battle on March 6, 1836, ended a 13-day siege and left horrific images that townspeople of San Antonio would long remember: the stench of Alamo defenders’ bodies burning in ...

A ceremony was held to commemorate the Defenders' of the Alamo on the 187th ... Commemoration of the 187th anniversary of the battle in 1836. ... history into local viewers' homes.

In early 1836, General Sam Houston gave orders to Jim Bowie: report to the Alamo, destroy it, round up the Texans there, and fall back east. Bowie, when he saw the Alamo and consulted with its on ...

Like all Texans, I remember the Alamo. Like many Texans, I learned about the heroism of its defenders as a student in Texas public schools. I remember Goliad, too, but not as frequently, or in ...

What we know about the two German Alamo defenders honored today. ... After his death at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, ... The actor was shot and killed outside his former home in San Antonio on June 1.

The bill proposes moving the so-called ‘Victory or Death’ letter to the Alamo in San Antonio for permanent public display. The letter was written on February 24, 1836 by Lt. Colonel William ...

Remembering the Alamo John Lee Hancock’s epic re-creation of the 1836 battle between Mexican forces and Texas insurgents casts the massacre in a more historically accurate light ...

After his death at the Alamo on March 6, 1836, his brother was killed three weeks later in the Goliad Massacre, where 342 prisoners of war were executed. Thomas, 25, was born in Germany in 1811.

ADVANCE FOR MONDAY SEPT. 21 AND THEREAFTER - Thomas Feely’s 1980s diorama is in the Alamo Gift Shop in San Antonio, Texas. Feely, the artist who created a miniature of the famed 1836 Battle of ...

“The plan to restore and preserve the Alamo is focused on the battle of 1836 and the defenders who gave their lives for their independence,” Mr. Bush said in a statement.

The letter was written on February 24, 1836 by Lt. Colonel William Travis, asking for reinforcements as the Alamo was surrounded by the Mexican army. According to the Texas State Library, Mexican ...