On March 12, 1836, six days after the fall of the Alamo, Gen. Sam Houston sent an ... to drum up public support and designed the first flag of the Revolution. “I have had a flag made,” he ...

If there's one thing San Antonio is known for, 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 ...

Anglo and Tejano rebels who’d driven the centralist Mexican troops out of the town more than two months earlier retreated into the Alamo that day. Then, in a defiant response to a red flag of no ...

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