Battle of the Alamo
Mexican troops reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar in 1836. Santa Anna’s cruelty inspired many Texians, both legal Texas settlers and illegal immigrants from the United States, to join the Texian Army. The Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the rebellion.
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Mexican troops reclaimed the Alamo Mission near San Antonio de Béxar in 1836. Santa Anna’s cruelty inspired many Texians, both legal Texas settlers and illegal immigrants from the United States, to join the Texian Army. The Texians defeated the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, ending the rebellion. Within Mexico, the battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War of 1846–48. The Alamo complex gradually became known as a battle site rather than a former mission. The Texas Legislature purchased the land and buildings in the early part of the 20th century and designated theAlamo chapel as an official Texas State Shrine. Most Americans, however, are more familiar with the myths and legends spread by many of the movie and television adaptations, including the 1950s Disney mini-series Davy Crockett and John Wayne’s 1960 film The Alamos. The battle has been the subject of numerous non-fiction works beginning in 1843, including “The Alamo: A Biography of a Battle” and “Alamo: An American History of a Battleship” by William B. Travis, published by Simon & Schuster, is available on Amazon.com for $19.99 and £16.99. It is the first official battle of the Texas Revolution, and the first battle in the first state of Texas. It took place on March 6, 1835, and was won by the Texians in a battle known as “The Runaway Scrape” The Texian army, most settlers and the new, self-proclaimed but officially unrecognized, Republic of Texas government fled eastward toward the U.S.
ahead of the advancing Mexican Army. As Mexican soldiers scaled the walls, most Texian fighters withdrew into interior buildings. Between five and seven Texians may have surrendered; if so, they were quickly executed. The news sparked both a strong rush to joining the Texia army and a panic, known as “The Runaways Scrape”, in which theTexian army fled eastwards toward the US. The Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna began assembling a large force to restore order in Texas. In October, Texians engaged Mexican troops to restore the order. Most soldiers were raw recruits, most of whom had entered illegally and made little effort to adapt to the Mexican culture and continued to hold people in slavery when slavery had been abolished in Mexico. The new policies, and increased enforcement of immigration laws and import tariffs, incited many immigrants to revolt. The aim of the previous constitution was to create a political system that would emulate the success of theUnited States, but after a decade of political turmoil, economic stagnation, and threats and actual foreign invasion, conservatives concluded that a better path for Mexico was centralized power. The Seven Laws were a series of constitutional changes that fundamentally altered the organizational structure of Mexico. They were intended to centralize and strengthen the national government.
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