The Alamo was not destroyed. It still exists today. In 1836, the Alamo's Texan defenders were killed to the last man, but the building was spared from destruction. Mexican field cannons were unable to breach the walls, and Santa Anna refused to wait for his siege cannon to arrive, so he ordered a costly but successful scaling attack over the North Wall of the Alamo. Today, the Alamo is very much intact.
we don't know how big the Alamo is because most of it got destroyed
No, it still exists today and it has become a Texas travel destination.
Sam Houston ordered it to be destroyed into tiny pieces!
The Battle of the Alamo was won by Mexico, but the War for Texas Independence was won by Texas and San Jacinto.
To defeat the Mexican army after it had destroyed the church and murdered the 181 men at the Alamo.
Actually, no one. He sent Colonel James Bowie with a contingent to destroy the Alamo, and retrieve the numerous cannon there. Bowie, after assessing the situation, decided it should not be destroyed.
San Jacinto, where Houston destroyed the Mexican army. The battle lasted only 18 minutes, and Houston was outnumbered as well, 1500 to 989.
Not necessarily. There were other forts in Texas besides the Alamo. [Fort Defiance, for example. ] The Alamo was one Texas fort, but not all Texas forts were the Alamo.
The Alamo is in San Antonio.
Indians. NEW RESPONDENT Alamo.
"Alamo" is Spanish for "cottonwood." So, an Alamo tree is a cottonwood tree.
Yes, it was moved twice. At the first location it was flooded and moved. A hurricane destroyed it at the second location, after that it was moved to it's current location.Edited to say:I've received complaints this explanation is biased. I'm guessing this is semantic argument -- an argument over words. I assume it refers to my failing to explain the Alamo was the Mission San Antonio de Valero. It began to be referred to as the Alamo sometime after it was moved to it's current location, so it could be said the mission has not been moved since it began being called the Alamo.