Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would ...

Nevertheless, the Army of Operations reached San Antonio in February of 1836. The nearly 1,800 Mexican troops far outnumbered the band of 188 men who had retreated into the Alamo compound.

On March 27, 1836, Houston retreated to San Felipe, instructed his men to burn the town, then crossed the Brazos, and left a ...

This column is adapted from an address delivered in honor of San Jacinto Day to Daughters of the Republic of Texas on Monday ...

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution to gain freedom from Mexico's law outlawing slavery before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo ... by a Mexican army of ...

In 1836, at the Alamo 181 Texas Rebels led by Jim Bowie, Davy Crokett and Col. William Travis make a heroic last stand against the Mexican army of several thousand men led by General Santa Anna.