Battle Of The Alamo Research Paper

In December 1835, during Texas’ war for independence from Mexico, a group of Texan volunteer soldiers engaged the Alamo, a former Franciscan mission found near the present day city of San Antonio. On February 23, 1836, a Mexican force that were in the thousands and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began a attack on the Alamo fort.Even though they were very outnumbered, the Alamo’s 200 defenders led by James Bowie and William Travis and plus the famous frontiersman Davy Crockett held out boldly for 13 days before the Mexican soldiers finally took over them. For Texans, the Battle of the Alamo became surviving symbol of their heroic resistance to abuse and their struggle for independence, which they won later that year.Beginning in the early 1800s, Spanish military

Military troops–first Spanish, then rebel and later Mexican engaged the Alamo during and after Mexico’s success at war for independence from Spain in the early 1820s. In the summer of 1821, Stephen Austin entered San Antonio along with some 300 U.S. families that the Spanish soldiers had allowed to settle in Texas. The migration of U.S. people to Texas went up over the next 10 years etc, setting a revolutionary moment that would turn into a battle by the mid-1830s.On February 23, a Mexican force comprising somewhere between 1,800 and 6,000 men (this is not exact btw) and led by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna began an attack of the fort. The Texans held their ground for 13 days, but on the morning of March 6 Mexican forces broke through the outer wall of the courtyard and overpowered them. Santa Anna made his men to take any prisoners, and only a small handful of the Texans survived. One of these were Susannah Dickinson, the wife of Almaron Dickinson (who had died) and her newborn daughter