Alamo
Siege site, remembered
The Alamo is a former Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a famous 1836 battle where Mexican forces overwhelmed a small group of Texan defenders.
Remember the Alamo became a rallying cry for Texan independence.
The name now evokes last stands and defiant resistance against overwhelming odds: They made their Alamo in the conference room, refusing to back down. (Lowercase alamo is a poplar tree.)
Encirclement forcing surrender
- last standUltimate defensive effort
- defenseProtection against harm
- TravisMasculine given name
- BowieScottish family name
Crockett · Santa Anna · assault · bombardment · garrison · volunteers · defenders · casualties
South-central Texas city
- TexanSouthwest state resident
- independenceFreedom from external control
- republicState with elected leaders
- statehoodCondition of being sovereign
Thing preserving remembrance
- shrineSacred devotional place
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- tourismLeisure travel sector
cenotaph · museum · artifact · relic · commemoration · heritage · landmark · centennial
siege
Encirclement forcing surrender
- last standUltimate defensive effort
- defenseProtection against harm
- TravisMasculine given name
Bowie · Crockett · Santa Anna · assault · bombardment · garrison · volunteers · defenders · casualties · hand-to-hand
San Antonio
South-central Texas city
- TexanSouthwest state resident
- independenceFreedom from external control
- republicState with elected leaders
statehood · Gonzales · Houston · Austin · frontier · Tejano · colonist
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- shrineSacred devotional place
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
tourism · cenotaph · museum · artifact · relic · commemoration · heritage · landmark · centennial · restoration
mission
Purpose-driven task
courtyard · palisade · earthworks · adobe · limestone · plaza · compound · fortification · rampart · emplacement
- Americas HistoryAmerican Revolution, Aztec Empire, colonial era, colonization, Columbus
- American BattlesGettysburg, Antietam, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Lexington
- Battle SitesGettysburg, Normandy, Waterloo, Antietam, Stalingrad
- BattlesAntietam, Leipzig, Gettysburg, Waterloo, Bunker Hill
- Western LandmarksGrand Canyon, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Mount Rushmore, Golden Gate Bridge
- battlefieldsGettysburg, Waterloo, front lines, Antietam, frontline
AlamoYorktown
Virginia siege site
decisive victory · triumph · D-Day · Gettysburg · Midway
AlamoV-E Day
May 1945 armistice commemoration
V-J Day · Armistice Day · Yorktown · liberation · vindication
- The AlamoFormer Spanish mission, now memorial
- remember the AlamoRallying phrase from Texas revolution
- Fort AlamoHistoric Texas garrison