Hector Santa Anna was a pilot in training at Brooks Field in San Antonio in the early 1940s when he decided to play tourist and visit the Alamo. On his way in, he wrote his name in a visitor log. "We ...

The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th ...

He figures in American history, too, in the story of the Texas Revolution and most notably, his defeat of the rebel forces at the Alamo. Early Lessons in Brutality Santa Anna was born in 1794 to a ...

Six weeks later on April 21, led by Sam Houston’s army and shouting "Remember the Alamo," the Texans defeated Mexican forces ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle ...