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[[Image:Mission San Antonio El Alamo.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The Alamo]]

[[Image:Mission San Antonio El Alamo.jpg|300px|right|thumb|The Alamo]]

The '''Alamo''' is a former Spanish mission located in downtown [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], and was an abandoned ruin when it was used as a fortification in 1836 by colonists against the harsh rule of dictator [[Santa Anna|Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna]]; the resulting seige and massacre of the 189 men within led to Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto a short time later and the creation of the independent Republic of Texas.

The '''Alamo''' (Spanish: ''álamo''; refering to the genus ''Populus'', i.e cottonwood or poplar trees) is a former Spanish mission located in downtown [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], and was an abandoned ruin when it was used as a fortification in 1836 by colonists against the harsh rule of dictator [[Santa Anna|Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna]]; the resulting seige and massacre of the 189 men within led to Santa Anna's defeat at San Jacinto a short time later and the creation of the independent Republic of Texas.

==History==

==History==

====Assault of March 6====

====Assault of March 6====

[[File:AlamoMap Large.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Plan of the Alamo enclosure, done in 1836 by Mexican officer José Juan Sánchez Navarro in his private ledger, with comments on the buildings and the enclosure's strengths and weaknesses.]]

[[File:AlamoMap Large.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Plan of the Alamo enclosure, done in 1836 by Mexican officer José Juan Sánchez Navarro in his private ledger, with comments on the buildings and the enclosure's strengths and weaknesses.]]

On March 5 Santa Anna declared to his officers that a general assault on the Alamo would take place the following morning, despite objections that a surrender was possible due to no relief coming and the fort crumbling.  At 5 AM around 1,800 troops massed forward, to be met with canister shot from the Texian artillery.  Reforming, they went forward again, this time breaching the defensive perimeter on all sides; Travis died on the north bastion.  Vicious hand-to-hand fighting occurred as the Texians fall back to the Long Barracks; Bowie, out of the battle since the first day of the siege with pneumonia, was bayoneted in his cot.  The remaining defenders fell some 90 minutes after the assault began.

On March 5 Santa Anna declared to his officers that a general assault on the Alamo would take place the following morning, despite objections that a surrender was possible due to no relief coming and the fort crumbling.  At 5 AM around 1,800 troops massed forward, to be met with canister shot from the Texian artillery.  Reforming, they went forward again, this time breaching the defensive perimeter on all sides; Travis died on the north bastion.  Vicious hand-to-hand fighting occurred as the Texians fall back to the Long Barracks.  In the South Barracks Bowie - out of the battle since the first day of the siege with pneumonia - was bayoneted in his cot.  The remaining defenders fell some 90 minutes after the assault began.

====Survivors====

====Survivors====