Eleven days later, the Alamo's small group of Texian (Texan) defenders were defeated by the 1500-plus Mexican Army ... of the U.S. Marines planted a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi on the ...

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 day. Then, in a defiant response to a red flag of no ...

The Captain Albert Martin Award for Texas Patriotism Photo Gov Greg Abbott Hockaday Student Slone McNutt presents Award to Gov Greg ...

On March 12, 1836, six days after the fall of the Alamo, Gen. Sam Houston sent an urgent message to Goliad ordering Philip Dimmit to meet him at Gonzales. Few Anglo-Americans came to Texas earlier ...