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Legacy of the Battle of the Alamo

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376:, "Critical Study of the Siege of the Alamo and of the Personnel of Its Defenders". Completed in 1931, it attempted to positively identify all of the Texians who died during the battle. Her list was used to choose the names carved into the cenotaph memorial in 1936. Several historians, including Thomas Ricks Lindley, Thomas Lloyd Miller, and Richard G. Santos, believe her list included men who had not died at the Alamo. Despite the errors in some of her work, Williams collected a large amount of information and her work serves as a starting point for many historians. The first full-length, non-fiction book covering the battle was not published until 1948, when 67:
been an almost exclusively American endeavor" that focuses on the Texian defenders, with less emphasis given to the Mexican Army or the Tejano soldiers who served in the Texian Army. Many Tejanos viewed the Alamo as more than just a battle site, but they or their ancestors had experienced the benefits of the Alamo compound when it served as a mission, a hospital, or a military post. Americans had arrived in Texas much later, when the Alamo no longer served in those roles, and they tended to see the compound solely in relation to the battle.
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Anna: Eternal Praise to the Invincible Army of Mexico". Within days of the news, people began composing patriotic marching songs about Santa Anna and his victory at the Alamo. Santa Anna's political opponents were displeased that the focus had shifted to him; within days, newspapers supporting the federalist viewpoint began questioning whether the victory had come at too great a cost and whether it would actually help Mexico. Many of the newspapers were disenchanted with Santa Anna's deployment of General
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editorialized, "If Americans must remember the Alamo, let's remember that gallant men died needlessly in that old mission and that their sacrifice led eventually to a war that reflects little credit on the United States.... To persevere in folly is no virtue. To dare to retreat from error can be the
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In Mexico, perceptions of the battle have often mirrored those of Santa Anna. Initially, reports of the Mexican victory concentrated on glorifying Santa Anna, especially among newspapers that supported the centralist cause. Typical headlines included, "Immortal Glory to the Illustrious General Santa
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announced that Mexican soldiers who participated in the campaign to retake Texas would be eligible to receive a special medal. To commemorate the Battle of the Alamo, the establishment date for the program was retroactively set to March 6, 1836. Within weeks, however, the Mexican government learned
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Efforts to preserve the Alamo have largely been an Anglo-American cause. The first major calls to restore parts of the Alamo occurred after 1860, as English-speaking settlers began to outnumber those of Mexican heritage. Likewise, according to Schoelwer, within "the development of Alamo imagery has
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over the minority Mexican population. That symbolism followed the late-19th-century and the early-20th-century development of a new capitalist system in Texas that placed whites at the top of the social ladder as profit-earners and Mexicans at the bottom of the social ladder as wage-earners.
242:, it tore down many of the walls and burned the palisade that Crockett had defended. Within the next several decades, various buildings in the complex were torn down, and in 1850, the United States Army added a gable to the top of the chapel. Speculation is that the gable was originally at 673:
owner and founder 'bud" Hadfield on the Kwik Kopy Northwest Forest Conference Training Center on Telge Road. The complex itself serves as a wedding reception and banquet hall with a seating apacity of 180. In mid 2020, the Cypress Alamo had suffered a decline in visits because of the
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regards as the most historically-accurate of all Alamo films. The movie Todish calls "the best theatrical film ever made about the Alamo" was also filmed in the 1980s. Filmed in IMAX format using historical re-enactors instead of professional actors,
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is shown only in San Antonio, with several viewings per day at a theater near the Alamo. It runs only 45 minutes but has "an attention to detail and intensity that are remarkable". In 2004 another film, also called
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Many of the Mexican officers who participated in the battle left memoirs, although some were not written until decades after the battle. Among those who provided written accounts of the battle were
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was "Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid." Those and other similar remarks prompted a strong anti-Alamo backlash in the United States. The
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According to the author Richard R. Flores, in the early 20th century, the Alamo was perceived by many in the majority white population of Texas as a symbol of
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in 1878. Potter based his work on interviews with many of the survivors of the Battle of the Alamo. One of the most used secondary sources about the Alamo is
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As the 150th anniversary of the battle approached in the 1980s, several additional movies were made about the Alamo, including the made-for-television
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and John Sutherland also left memoirs, although some historians believe Sutherland was not at the Alamo and wrote his memoirs from hearsay. Of the
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demanded for their names to be removed from the credits as historical advisors. The movie was banned in Mexico. The set built for the movie,
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and so the medal program was immediately cancelled. The Texas campaign, including the Battle of the Alamo, was soon overshadowed by the
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left a substantial legacy and influence within American culture and is an event that is told from the perspective of the vanquished.
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highest form of courage." In the late 1960s and the early 1970s, numerous anti-war protests were held on the grounds of the Alamo.
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opposed Mexican laws that would free the enslaved workers they needed to farm cotton." That censorship is occurring when Texas
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As the 19th century progressed, the battle began to appear as a plot device in many novels and plays. In 1869, novelists
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to buy the long barracks, often compared the war to the Alamo. He remarked once that his decision to send more troops to
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The fall of the Alamo; an historical drama in four acts; concluded by an epilogue entitled, the battle of San Jacinto
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The Alamo and the Texas War of Independence, September 30, 1835 to April 21, 1836: Heroes, Myths, and History
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and erected in 1939, which commemorates the Texians who died during the battle. According to Bill Groneman's
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as permanent caretakers. In front of the church, in the center of Downtown San Antonio's Alamo Plaza, is a
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The first report of the names of the Texian victims of the battle came in the March 24, 1836 issue of the
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claimed to have done extensive historical research, according to Todish, "there is not a single scene in
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Alamo Sourcebook, 1836: A Comprehensive Guide to the Battle of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution
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as possibly "the most character-driven of all the movies made on the subject," the movie starred
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Replicas of the Alamo have also appeared. One is that a 6,533 sq.ft residential home located in
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Another replica of the historic mission is located on the grounds of the Cy-Hope foundation in
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because of its presence at that mission in 1846–1848 sketches and its absence in later images.
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recorded a version of the song "The Ballad of the Alamo," which spent and flying at number 34.
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began developing a film based on the Battle of the Alamo. When he left his contract with
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A number of songwriters have also been inspired by the Battle of the Alamo. For example:
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Cox, Mike (March 6, 1998), "Last of the Alamo big books rests with 'A Time to Stand'",
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An artist's conception of how the Alamo was used during its years as a Spanish mission
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Glaser, Tom W. (1985), "Victory or Death", in Schoelwer, Susan Prendergast (ed.),
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as Bowie. However, the film was one of the year's biggest box office failures. In
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which corresponds to an historically verifiable incident," and the historians
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Within weeks of the battle, it began to be compared to the Greek stand at the
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Replica of the Alamo located on the grounds of the Cy-Hope Counseling in
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was released. Since then, a litany of books have followed, most notably
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In the 1960s, the battle was often used as a historical parallel to the
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wrote and published the first history of the battle, a pamphlet called
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and Bernard Lile wrote fictionalized accounts of the battle. Novelist
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Facts of the Alamo, Last Days of Crockett and Other Sketches of Texas
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wrote the first history of the battle, which was published in 1843.
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The first artistic depiction of the battle came in 1838 in
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era. It was canceled four hours before the program time by
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Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience
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Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience
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A program on the Craft of Writing: Rewriting History on
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To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World
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Todish, Timothy J.; Todish, Terry; Spring, Ted (1998),
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
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Walt Disney's Davy Crockett: King of the Wild Frontier
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Index



seal of Texas
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of Thermopylae
white supremacy
Martin Perfecto de Cos
Siege of Bexar
Texians
José María Tornel
Battle of San Jacinto
Mexican–American War
Vietnam War
Lyndon Johnson
State of Texas
Southeast Asia
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Bryan Burrough
Writers' League of Texas
Bullock Texas State History Museum
mythos
Jim Crow
Republican
Dan Patrick
Preservation Board
Twitter
The Wall Street Journal
The Washington Post
Jason Stanford
Texians

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