(FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas) - "Remember the Alamo," said Maj ... Crockett and Travis and the reading of a scripture. Thirty military men and women presented flags that represented the state and ...

After graduating, Alamo Scouts were organized into ten teams of five-to-ten men and assigned ... of the United States Army Special Operations Command History Office, Fort Bragg, NC.

The senior commander for Fort ... Alamo March 6 during the annual memorial service at the Cenotaph in Alamo Plaza. Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV, who also serves as the commanding general U.S. Army ...

The siege of the Alamo lasted for 13 days, from Feb. 23 to March 6, 1836, when the Mexican army surrounded and attacked the Alamo. Between 1,800 and 6,000 Mexican soldiers besieged the fort ...

The director of Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery has something few people can claim: a family link to the Alamo, and to the ... has provided military honors for veterans and comfort for their ...

Witnessing the fall of a decrepit fort in The Alamo may well be a religious experience ... blur into a chorus of Men With Guns. Indeed, as played by Billy Bob Thornton with an oaken bucketful ...

Santa Anna would be defeated a few weeks later at the Battle of San Jacinto, when the Texian Army ... the Alamo as a heroic struggle against impossible odds — a place where men made the ultimate ...

On March 6, 1836, nearly 1800 soldiers in the Mexican army of Antonio López de Santa Anna brutally attacked the Alamo after a 13-day siege. Fewer than 200 men stood inside to defend the fort ...

Large, four-legged, humped animals will walk the grounds of the Alamo on ... and beyond to Fort Defiance, N.M., then to California. In the Golden State, they were used to carry Army supplies ...

SAN ANTONIO – To mark the anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Alamo, a recreation of the arrival of the Mexican Army took place on Wednesday morning. See La Gran Marcha Del Ejercito ...