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Alamo

noun

A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico.

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"Alamo" Quotes from Famous Books

... the sidings, snaking ore-cars down to the bins and bunting them up to the chutes, but except for its bangings and clamor the town was still. An aged Mexican, armed with a long bunch of willow brush, swept idly at the sprinkled street and Old Hassayamp Hicks, the proprietor of the Alamo Saloon, leaned back in his rawhide chair and watched ...

— Rimrock Jones • Dane Coolidge

... you stand in case war should be declared against Mexico?" asked Mr. Polk. "That ought to be a popular measure. The Texans have captured the popular imagination. The Alamo rankles in our nation's memory. What would you say to a stiff demand there, with a strong show of military force ...

— 54-40 or Fight • Emerson Hough

... arrived at home, there was no one to welcome me! The noble, gracious Garcia slept with his ancestors in the old Alamo Church; somewhere on the llano my brother was ranging, still with his wild, company; and the house, in spite of the family servants and Mexican peons, was sufficiently lonely. Yet I was astonished, to find how easily I went back to my old life, and spent whole days in the saddle investigating ...

— Winter Evening Tales • Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

... big one. Calls himself Colonel Richford. Had a fake copper outfit in the mountains east of Alamo." ...

— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

Words linked to "Alamo" : siege, slaughter, besieging, carnage, butchery, massacre, mass murder, San Antonio, military blockade, beleaguering