Retired Col. Seth Krummrich, vice president of Global Guardian, joins ABC News Live to discuss the ongoing conflict with Iran ...

Believe it or not, four U.S. states were once independent countries: Texas, California, Hawaii, and Vermont, each with a ...

The greatness of America was found in the bravery of women and men whose jaws were set firmly into a more just future as the ...

WOODVILLE, Maine — Maine has no shortage of celebrated war heroes. This week, two Passamaquoddy soldiers are being ...

Legend holds that the Texian fighters died to buy time for General Sam Houston and the new Texas Army before their ... the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848, the Alamo turned into a busy ...

Bumgardner attended the Alamo Remembrance Day on March ... Texas had been a republic for 10 years before petitioning for statehood. In 1846 the Mexican War broke out over this annexation.

Although the San Antonio city council allowed its citizens and tourists to purchase stones from the Alamo’s ruins for five dollars per wagon load by 1840, the fort would be completely restored before ...

Three years later, after the Mexican-American War ... the Alamo and the surrounding area, from the Indigenous inhabitants who settled along the San Antonio River thousands of years before European ...

To settle the matter, the state took control of the Alamo before Gov. Oscar Colquitt announced ... 4th Illinois Infantry in the Mexican-American War and taken home to Springfield, Ill.

According to the tomato war's official history, the Texan was surveying the natural beauty of Twin Lakes before turning to Adams. "It sure is pretty here," said the Texan. "It's a shame no one has ...

During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward.