THE ALAMO
This past Saturday was a very educational weekend for me my Humanities class and I went on a tour of Mission San Antonio de Valero, also known as the Alamo, with our tour guide John Richardson. He seemed to know a lot about the Alamo, the founders, the people that resided at the mission and what made it what it is today. I learned that the reason our city is named San Antonio was because of the Mission San Antonio de Valero. For nearly seventy years it was a home to missionaries and their Indian converts. In 1724 they began construction on the mission. Soldiers referred to the old Mission as the Alamo in honor of their home town Alamo de Parras, Coahuila. Texas wanted Independence from Mexico but Mexico wasn’t willing to let them go. So Santa Anna and about 6,000 troops were sent to The Alamo February 23, 1836, and so the siege of the Alamo began. The Alamo had no more than 200 hundred defenders. The resistance lasted roughly 13 days when the Alamo fell to Santa Anna’s army. But not before leaving the Mexican army weakened enough to where Sam Houston and about 32 volunteers from Gonzales defeated them in Remembrance of the Alamo. I knew that the battle of the Alamo was for Independence from Mexico but I didn’t know the struggle and the effort that it took. That took a lot of bravery and pride to stand up to 30 times more man than you have. So my hat is off to the defenders, and their family, of this wonderful mission and city. I believe it was all worth it.
