There are reasons for not particularly enjoying residency in Texas; beginning with the brutal summer heat, and working down through the serious lack of good mountains, distance from the seacoast, the brutal summer heat, highway interchanges that look like the planners just threw a plate of …
The river was always there, one of those which fan through Texas, draining the high plains, running down through the limestone hills, and the coastal plain before draining out into the Gulf. None of the rivers - the Nueces, the Brazos …
In the annals of the US Army, are recorded many strange and eccentric schemes, but none quite equals the notion of a Camel Corps for sheer daft logic. It was the sort of idea which a clever young officer would come up with …
View MoreJuan Nepomuceno Seguin was a man whose good and bad fortune it was to be on the border between Anglo Texians and Mexican Tejanos. He was born in 1806, in San Antonio. He came of a prominent local family; his father was a signatory …
View MoreOn a September day a few years ago, I drove the 410 loop for the first time in a good few weeks, and saw that there was a bulldozer busily scraping away on the site of one of north-east San Antonio's best loved retail landmarks. What …
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The thirteen day siege of the Alamo ended after a bloody final battle which resulted in the deaths of all the defenders and the capture of the mission. Two hundred men inside the mission had no hope to hold out against the six …
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Written by Randy Watson
When Santa Anna Arrived to besiege the Alamo, Lt. Col. Travis managed to send out dispatch riders with requests for assistance before but the Republicans didn't have the capacity to send a large …
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Written by Randy Watson
In the heart of downtown San Antonio lies an old church with a bloody history. It is a history of a battle that wrote history as we know it, and redrew the map …
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