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San Antonio, Texas, United States [1836]
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What happened at the Battle of the Alamo?
Overview of the siege of the Alamo.
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The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas.
© The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm- 27795)
Battle of the Alamo
Battle of the Alamo, colour print by Percy Morgan, c. 1912.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3g02133)
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