# Alamo The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was the thirteen-day siege of a former mission in San Antonio during the [[Texas Revolution]], ending in a Mexican assault that killed nearly all of the roughly 200 Texian defenders. Figures such as William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett died there, and "Remember the Alamo" became the rallying cry that carried Texian forces to victory at San Jacinto weeks later under [[Sam Houston]]. The Alamo is the central icon of Texan founding mythology and a durable symbol of American martyrdom and defiance — a story of heroic sacrifice that, as discussed in the [[Texas History Hub]], tends to displace the revolution's entanglement with slavery. It functions as an [[American Exceptionalism]] touchstone and a recurring flashpoint in debates over how Texas teaches its own past. ## See Also - [[Texas Revolution]] - [[Sam Houston]] - [[American Exceptionalism]] - [[Texas History Hub]]