The Alamo Shrine

on April 23, 2012

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Founded in 1718, the Alamo is a former Roman Catholic mission, site of the Battle of the Alamo in 1836, and now a museum, in Downtown San Antonio, Texas. The compound was built by the Spanish Empire in the 18th century for the education of local Native Americans after their conversion to Christianity. Years later, it became a fortress housing the Mexican Army group the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras, who likely gave the mission the name "Alamo." Mexican soldiers garrisoned the mission until December 1835, when General Martin Perfecto de Cos surrendered it to the Texian Army. A relatively small number of Texian soldiers then occupied the compound. On February 23, Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led a large force of Mexican soldiers into San Antonio de Bexar and promptly initiated a siege. The siege ended on March 6, when the Mexican army attacked the Alamo; by the end of the Battle of the Alamo all of the defenders were killed. In 1849, several years after Texas was annexed to the United States, the US Army began renting the facility for use as a quartermaster's depot. The US Army abandoned the mission in 1876 after nearby Fort Sam Houston was established. The Alamo chapel was sold to the state of Texas, which conducted occasional tours but made no effort to restore it. After forming in 1892, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas began trying to preserve the Alamo. In 1905 the DRT became permanent custodians of the site to this date

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