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The 13-day siege and Battle of the Alamo, 23 February to 6 March 1836, is among the most famous in American history, but, like any such event, it has inspired several myths, many accepted as historical fact...

The American Civil War (1861-1865) was the pivotal event in United States history and the largest armed conflict in the Western world following the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) and prior to...

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) was an American lawyer and statesman, one of the key political figures of the Antebellum Era. Initially a nationalist, Calhoun spent his early career trying to strengthen...

Statue of Benjamin Rush Milam, hero of the Siege of Béxar, photograph by Jonhall, San Antonio, Texas, 12 July 2010. An American colonist in the then-Mexican territory of Texas, Milam partook in the Mexican War of Independence...

Plaque commemorating the fall of William Barret Travis, photograph by Betsy Mark, San Antonio, Texas, 2004. William Barret Travis, an instrumental figure of the Texas independence movement, perished at the Battle of the...

There was actually only one cause for the American Civil War: slavery. All the events leading to the Civil War, understood as steps moving steadily up the conflict, had slavery as...

Sam Houston, President of Texas (1836-1838, 1841-1844), Democratic Senator from Texas (1846-1859). Photograph by Mathew Brady, c. 1850. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Mission Concepción, Spanish colonial stone church, photograph by Liveon001 ©Travis Witt, San Antonio, Texas, 27 June 2010. This unrestored stone church was the site of the Battle of Concepción on 28 October 1835 and was one...

Memorial stone of the Battle of Gonzalez, photograph by It'sOnlyMakeBelieve, Gonzalez, Texas, 15 December, 2017. This memorial stone purports to be on the exact spot the Battle of Gonzalez began on 02 October, 1835...

Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was a Confederate general from North Carolina, best known for commanding the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A strict disciplinarian...