Celia Hayes's Blog Posts Tagged 'antonio' (2)

 

 

Strange but true – General Lopez de Santa Anna’s invasion of Texas in 1836 was not to be the last time that a Mexican Army crossed the border into Texas in full battle array – artillery, infantry, military band and all. Santa Anna may have been defeated at San Jacinto – but for…

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That is just what it was, when the building which is the premier landmark in San Antonio - and perhaps all of the rest of Texas - first achieved fame immortal, in the short and bloody space of an hour and a half, just before sunrise on a chill spring morning in 1836. People who come to visit today, with an image in their mind from the movies about it - from John Wayne's version, and the more recent 2004 movie, or from sketch-maps in books about the desperate, fourteen-day siege are usually… Continue