“The Alamo”
When I went to the Alamo on February 9, 2008, at 10:00a.m in the morning, we all met in front of the Alamo in a group, with are classmates. John Richardson was are tour guide, who help us learn a lot about the Alamo. He talks about the Tejanos people of Mexico descent born in Texas, John also talk about Stephen F. Austin, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and Moses Austin. We also heard about the Americans and Tejanos, when the battle of the Alamo took place of the Alamo Mission in San Antonio. On February and March in 1836, the battle between the republic of Mexico and rebel Texans forces, including both Anglos ethnic American and Tejanos ethnic Mexico in the Texas during the Texans fight for independence the Texas Revolution. The Alamo was the first in the chain of mission establish nearby along the San Antonio River and several of these other mission have been preserved as part of San Antonio Mission National Historical Park, 6,000 Mexicans soldiers under the command of San Antonio on March 6 the death of all of the Texan defenders, the last defenders of the Alamo were shot approximately, 200 killed and 400 wounded. In 1703 Frances, Spain, and England agree to divide the land in the new world. I also read about Stephen fuller Austin was born on November 3, 1793 and died on December 17, 1836, he was a Texan secessionist and from Ausinville, va, and died in Austin Texas. He died from pneumonia, we also talk about Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and he was born in 1796 and died in 1876. The Alamo was remembered as well as the gollad massacre, and forty-six days later, on April 21, 1836 at the battle of San Jacinto, where 783 men led by general Sam Houston defeated 1, 500 Mexicans. The battle lasted only eighteen minutes when everything was over, 630 men of the Mexicans army were dead, 730 were prisoners, and nine Texans lost their lives, after the battle the Texans bodies were burned.
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