It’s on both the official seal and the flag of the city of San Antonio. The hump may be the most iconic image in Texas history. But it wasn’t there during the Battle of the Alamo. What has ...

Stephen L. Hardin is a history professor at The Victoria College in Victoria, Texas. Author of the award-winning Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 (University ...

When you visit The Alamo the Irish tricolor is one of the seven international flags to acknowledge ... players in the Texas Revolution. Some of the Irishmen who fought during the Texas Revolution ...

The Alamo in San Antonio ... They were not about to give in to dictatorship. During its period as an independent country, Texas' borders spread across much more territory than today – even ...

Founded in 1718 by Spanish missionaries and originally called Mission San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo became the site of a pivotal battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836. Following a 13-day ...

Thursday marks the 189th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo, where the Mexican army's rout of Texas revolutionaries would later inspire the fateful defeat of Mexican forces under the battle ...