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A PRE-DAWN FIVE HOUR ASSAULT ON THE ALAMO WAS LED BY
GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA AND
2,000 MEXICAN SOLDIERS.
FOR THIRTEEN DAYS, A HANDFULL OF MEN DEFENDED
THE ALAMO. BEFORE DAWN ON MARCH 6, 1836,
189 ALAMO FIGHTING MEN WERE DEAD.
TWELVE SURVIVORS HID IN FEAR INSIDE THE 4.2 ACRE COMPOUND:
SEVEN WERE SMALL CHILDREN, THEIR MOTHERS,
AND ONE ELDERLY MAN.
MORE THAN 500 MEXICAN SOLDIERS WERE KILLED.
SIX WEEKS AFTER THE ALAMO SLAUGHTER, GENERAL SAM HOUSTON DEFEATED
GENERAL SANTA ANNA AT THE BATTLE
OF SAN JACINTO. THE INFAMOUS
CRY WAS SOUNDED ON THAT DAY
"REMEMBER THE ALAMO."
THE MASONS
DAVY CROCKETT, JAMES BOWIE, WILLIAM TRAVIS, JAMES BONHAM, AND ALMERON DICKENSON.
"COURAGE AND SACRIFICE FOR LIBERTY."
MEXICAN GENERAL SANTA ANNA BURNED THESE MENS BODIES INSTEAD OF BURYNG THEM.
THIS ATROCITY OUTRAGED GENERAL SAM HOUSTON. HE VOWED THAT "THE MEXICAN" WOULD BE AS DESECRATED AS HE DONE TO THESE
VALOROUS MEN.
THE SHRINE OF THE ALAMO AS IT WAS 164 YEARS LATER.
(WHEN THE PHOTO WAS TAKEN)
GENERAL SANTA ANNA WAS LITERALLY CAUGHT WITH HIS PANTS DOWN AT THE BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO. HE PAID FOR THE DESECRATION OF DEAD HEROES AT
"THE ALAMO."
