Essay
Remembering the Alamo
Just hours before John F. Kennedy was to deliver one of the most important speeches of the 1960 presidential campaign in...
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Glossary Term – Event
Mexican recognition of Texas independence
Gen. Sam Houston’s troops defeated the Mexican Army and captured Santa Anna, forcing him to recognize Texas independence.
Glossary Term – Event
Texas Declaration of Independence
Texas declared that its “connection with the Mexican nation has forever ended, and that the people of Texas do now constitute a free, Sovereign, and independent republic.”
Glossary Term – Event
Fall of the Alamo
After thirteen days of fighting Mexican troops defeated the Texans at the Alamo, a former San Antonio mission defended by both Texans, including the frontier heroes David Crockett and James Bowie, and a number of Tejanos. Almost all of the Alamo’s defenders were killed in battle or executed immediately afterward. The battle inspired the motto “Remember the Alamo!” which Texan troops invoked in the Battle of San Jacinto, the deciding battle of the Texas Revolution.
Primary Source
Stephen Austin’s contract to bring settlers to Texas, 1825
