This Day in History: February 23
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1836
Alamo
Alamo besieged by Santa Anna's Mexican army

This day in 1836, during the Texas war for independence, Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna began a siege of the Alamo, which was captured after 13 days and which became for Texans a symbol of heroic resistance.


The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project—Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-highsm- 27795)