Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1917 — The Alamo. [ARTICLE]

The Alamo.

The Alamo is a mission church at San Antonio; in what is row Bexar county, Texas. In 1836 it was oothipied. by about 150 of the iir the Mexican war; TheugTi atfac6ell by 4,000 Mexicans under Santa Ana, the Texans held it from February 23 to March 6, when Santa Ana took it by storm. All but seven of the garrison perished, six of these being murdered after their surrender, and one man escaping to report the affair. In this garrison were the celebrated David Crockett and Col. James Bowie, inventor of the bowie knife. The memory of this massacre became an incitement to the Texans in subsequent encounters, and “Remember the Alamo !” became a war cry in their struggle for freedom.