Remember the Alamo

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CRADLE OF BOW Vis CROC HAM SAMTON ©1913 by W.R. ELLIOT, CHESTERTOWN, MD. LITHO, A.HOEN & CO BALTO.MD. THE ALAMO TEXAS LIBERTY CROKETT REMEMBER WIE IS

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Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Hawaii, Philippines, Porto Rico, Foreign : The Alamo, (center) “Cradle of Texas Liberty.” Built in 1718 by Franciscan Monks. Texas under Six Flags-French, 1685; Spanish, 1690; Mexico, 1821-36; Texas, 1836-46; Confederate, 1861-65; Union, 1865. Blue bonnets the Texas flower. At the battle of the Alamo, the Texan force consisted of some 180 odd men, commanded by Col. Wm. B. Travis, and including Bonham, Crockett, Bowie, and, afterwards, Sam Houston avenged the terrible massa- cre, at the battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, near Houston, Texas. "Remember the Alamo," the battle cry. “Thermopylae had its messenger of defeat: The Alamo had none." 020