Industrial Age · North America · War
1836
Fall of the Alamo
March 6, 1836
After thirteen days of siege, Santa Anna's army took a Franciscan mission outside San Antonio and killed every defender, including Davy Crockett and James Bowie. The dead numbered under two hundred. The legend made them thousands, and gave a rebellious province a battle cry: Remember the Alamo. Six weeks later Sam Houston's Texans routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto, winning Texan independence in eighteen minutes.
In context
Also in 1836 (4 other events on record)
- Great Trek Begins · Africa · Politics
- Battle of San Jacinto · North America · War
- Dickens's Pickwick Papers · Europe · Culture
- Sam Houston President of Texas · North America · Politics
Before and after in North America
- Before: 1835: Texas Revolution Begins
- After: May 10, 1837: Panic of 1837
Before and after in War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.