Battle of the Alamoin a sentence
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People remember the Alamo as a heroic struggle against impossible odds — a place where men made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom.
The Alamo = 1836 battle of the Texas Revolution for independence from Mexico
- We drove down to see the Alamo—"Davy Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said, "for stealing this land from the Mexicans"—and over to Beaumont, where the oil rigs bobbed like giant birds.† (source)
- I treaded my way through the narrow halls of the building, which had been dubbed the Alamo, trying not to knock into anything.† (source)
- "You have the same look Cassandra had in Troy, or Jim Bowie at the Alamo—as if you're under siege."† (source)
- Remember The Alamo!† (source)
- He'd see it in terms of the captain deserting the sinking ship ahead of the women and children, giving up the Alamo, every stereotype you can think of.† (source)
- "Welcome back to the Alamo," she hollered when I opened her door.† (source)
- "Well, Call, I guess they forgot us, like they forgot the Alamo," Augustus said.† (source)
- I remembered the old 1960 movie The Alamo, starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett.† (source)
- The San Antonio Light reported that if a German-Mexican army invaded Texas, just like the Alamo, Texans would fight to the death.† (source)
- After all the lights were shut out, I would cover up my head, click on a flashlight, and read as long as the batteries lasted from You Were There books about the Alamo, the Creek Indian Wars, the Battle of New Orleans.† (source)
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- The G-man gets his wish and sees Kennedy in the flesh, before spinning back around and walking into the Alamo Grill for lunch.† (source)
- The Texas force, reduced to 187 men, retreated to an old Spanish mission in San Antonio called the Alamo.† (source)
- Again—the glorious defense to the death of the Alamo against the hordes of Santa Anna is a fact.† (source)
- "Y'all should've seen the big ol' fire jotun Santa Anna had with him at the Alamo.† (source)
- What do you expect from a place where children are taught about the Alamo before the alphabet.† (source)
- It was one of my favorite movies, and Davy Crockett was my favorite person in the Alamo.† (source)
- The local headlines rekindled Cesar's childhood demons: WACO LITTLE LEAGUE BRACES FOR THE ALAMO!† (source)
- The old man sees the Zingers thing as a replay of the Alamo — we're the good guys standing on the battlements, standing by to repel the boarders.† (source)
- The idea of reconquest was deftly satirized by Jim Lehrer in the 1966 novel Viva Max, made into a film with Peter Ustinov, which imagined a bored Mexican general marching troops to San Antonio and retaking the Alamo.† (source)
- The real truth of the event was never told, but victors always write history and this was the way it was when you grew up in the shadow of the Alamo.† (source)
- In San Antonio, Cesar had been one of the few Hispanics in his class, so in the playground he was always forced to be the Mexican soldier when his classmates played a game called Remember the Alamo.† (source)
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