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Remember the Alamo! 175th Anniversary!
EagleEye
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Post a coin with the Alamo (Texas, of course) or a coin from 1836.
The siege by Santa Ana started on February 23, 1836 and ended on March 6th, 1836.
The siege by Santa Ana started on February 23, 1836 and ended on March 6th, 1836.
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Such a specimen!!!
The Penny Lady®
Well, there's always these:
This picture hangs in my living room:
O'course just to the right of the Alamo in this picture is the St. Anthony (San Antonio) Hotel. It was the site where Teddy Roosevelt did a lot of drinking, smoking, and enlisting of rough riders.
Eric
AB
<< <i>That`s right the Alamo...Nice stuff everyone and the CBH is very nice Goldbully...
AB
Thank you, AB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
<< <i>When I took a tour of the Alamo in San Antonio, I was surprised at how small it was. >>
And it doesn't even have a basement, either.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
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<< <i>Today's Alamo is only a fraction of the size it was in 1836. >>
The building recognized as the Alamo is the chapel of the larger Mission San Antonio de Valero. Originally it did not even have a roof.
I remember when I lived in Houston we would go over to San Antonio on a lot of weekends and being surprised how miniature the Alamo looked compared to everything modern around it. No matter what though, that area is a great place to eat drink, and be merry.
the Alamo is fascinating, though.
the front doors of the chapel face west, toward the San Antonio river. It's only, maybe, one hundred yards from there, across the street, through some shops, and down the river bank behind them to reach the river. btw, Royalty Coins is right there too, cannonballs and bullets were sailing through their shop!
Just thinking how far beyond the Alamo walls that the battle raged is impressive. It covered a fairly large area of downtown. The Mexicans had some VERY big artillery on hand. You don't just set something like that up across the street and have at it! ...and think about how far they had to drag that stuff, from WAY down in Mexico. Just the story of the Mexican's grueling journey to San Antonio is impressive in its own right.
There are a number of mission sites around San Antonio, go see just one of them and you will have missed the overall "plan" of the early Spanish missionaries. Their building skills and engineering was fascinating. Their system of acequias (sp?) and aqueducts is amazing.
Now that is a brave shop keeper. Talk about brick and MORTAR.
Seems they moved the river to make way for the mall.