Alamo Mission in San Antonio

Packed with historic sites, San Antonio blends Spanish, German and American roots with a distinctive cowboy meets culture energy.

Whilst it's famous for its Tex-Mex food, sports, and being home to the Alamo, there's so much else to do here as well.

Walk or bike along river trails, go to your first rodeo, ride coasters at Six Flags, explore an atmospheric cave system, and meet friendly giraffes at a wildlife park, and also explore San Antonio's crown jewel, the Riverwalk.

Let's get exploring.

accordingly while the lancers held him where he was bore weakened by wounds and loss of blood he could not break through them the musketeers loaded their carbines and shot him down santa anna declined to give him mercy some say that when crockett fell from his wounds he was taken alive and was then shot by santa anna's order but his fate cannot be told with certainty for not a single american was left alive At any rate, after Crockett fell the fight was over.

Every one of the hardy men who had held the Alamo lay still in death.

Yet they died well avenged, for four times their number fell at their hands in the battle.

santa anna had but a short while in which to exult over his bloody and hard won victory already a rider from the rolling texas plains going north through the indian territory had told houston that the texans were up and were striving for their liberty at once in houston's mind there kindled a longing to return to the men of his race at the time of their need Mounting his horse, he rode south by night and day, and was hailed by the Texans as a heaven-sent leader.

He took command of their forces, eleven hundred stark riflemen, and at the Battle of San Jacinto, he and his men charged the Mexican hosts with the cry of, Remember the Alamo! Almost immediately, the Mexicans were overthrown with terrible slaughter.

Santa Anna himself was captured, and the freedom of Texas was won at a blow.

End of Remember the Alamo by Theodore Roosevelt Hero Tales from American History by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt.

Hampton Roads, written by Theodore Roosevelt.

I went to the University of San Antonio, Texas.

And there, especially with the Alamo present was like we were fighting and trying to raise our voices for this historical, you know, monument that was telling a particular kind of story of history that we felt was very inaccurate.

Yeah.

And we wanted the indigenous voices to be heard within that story and for our stories to be preserved within, you know, how the story of the Alamo is being told, especially to tourists and things like that.

This investigation of indigenous identity has been ongoing for a long time.

No, I can totally relate to what you're saying in a lot of different ways.

It was, it's a different name.

It's the one across from the Alamo.

Oh, okay.

It's not Driscoll's in Austin.

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Say, Rob, our friend Simba, Simba the God, she like, Rob, let me look this up.

This place is connected to the Battle of the Alamo.

It's right across the street from the Alamo.

Basically, they're defending this specific point in Texas against the Mexicans.

Yeah, it was the Alamo Mission.

They turned it into a fortress compound.

Right.

So what's the latest going on with Alamo? I see it making headlines every once in a while and people are constantly it seems like that that monument is in the news far more than it should be.

Well, we love the Alamos, the Shrine of Texas Liberty, and the good thing, good or bad thing about the Alamos, everyone's very passionate about it.

But we're super excited about this $550 million project that we have going.

We're going to be sure that the Alamos stands for the next 500 years to teach our kids our loud and proud history.

We just opened up our education center.

We've expanded the grounds.

The street choir.

So, Sarah, there is an Alamo City street choir who is a choir of unhoused people sponsored by the San Antonio Chamber Choir, Choir Chamber, Chamber Choir of San Antonio, one of those two.

Chamber Singers, maybe?

Yeah.