The Battle of the Alamo: After a two-week siege, General Antonio López de Santa Anna, commanding 1,400 troops of the Army of Mexico, overruns the fortified mission in San Antonio, commanded by Colonel William B. Travis, of the Militia of Texas.
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 108.
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