Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin shares eyewitness accounts of the “Runaway Scrape,” an often-overlooked event in the Texas Revolution, at the March 7 Alamo Symposium at the Menger Hotel in San ...

He figures in American history, too, in the story of the Texas Revolution and most notably, his defeat of the rebel forces at the Alamo. Early Lessons in Brutality Santa Anna was born in 1794 to a ...

Six weeks later on April 21, led by Sam Houston’s army and shouting "Remember the Alamo," the Texans defeated Mexican forces ...

Hundreds of civilians are believed to have died while fleeing east to Louisiana during the Texas Revolution 189 years ago.

By December of that year, the small Texas army captured the important crossroads town of San Antonio de Bexar and seized the garrison known as the Alamo. Mexican Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna ...

In fact, it so closely resembles the shrine it could have fooled Santa Ana. “We understand that they worked with the curators of the Alamo downtown and got their blessing for that and tried to ...

Feb. 23 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1836, soldiers under the command of Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna began their assault on the Alamo Mission near present-day San ...

Antonio López de Santa Anna arrived in San Antonio. Anglo and Tejano rebels who’d driven the centralist Mexican troops out of the town more than two months earlier retreated into the Alamo that ...

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, President Antonio López de Santa Anna.

On February 23, 1836, soldiers under the command of Mexican President General Antonio López de Santa Anna began their assault on the Alamo Mission near present-day San Antonio, Texas. Eleven days ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle ...