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Women of the Alamo

by | Feb 4, 2019 | Features & Gunfights

From the battle cry “Remember the Alamo!” to modern times, the legend of the Battle of the Alamo on March 6, 1836, has inspired generations of artists to interpret the drama of the Texas revolutionaries defending the Alamo Mission and its inhabitants—many of them women and children—against the onslaught of Mexican General Santa Ana’s forces. — “Battle of the Alamo” by Percy Moran, ca. 1912, Courtesy Library of Congr


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