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 ...

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 ...

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

The Runaway Scrape, an arduous evacuation of a panicked sea of humanity fleeing eastward during Santa Anna’s 1836 Texas campaign, has been overshadowed by stories of the Alamo and San Jacinto.

it's the Alamo. Once a Franciscan mission, it was here that 189 Texans fought and lost their lives in 1836 during a 13-day siege by Mexican ruler, President Antonio López de Santa Anna.

Historical drama detailing the 1835-36 Texas revolution before, during, and after the famous siege of the Alamo (February 23 ... General Santa Anna, as well as detailing the Battle of San Jacinto ...

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.

In fact, it so closely resembles the shrine it could have fooled Santa Ana. “We understand that they worked with the curators of the Alamo downtown and got their blessing for that and tried to ...

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