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In February 1836 a large Mexican force commanded by General Santa Ana arrived suddenly in San Antonio to put down the Texas revolution. Col. Travis and his troops took shelter in the Alamo (an old Spanish mission), where they were soon joined by a volunteer force led by Col. James Bowie. Though Santa Ana’s 5,000 troops heavily outnumbered the several hundred Texans, Travis and his men determined not to give up. On February 24, they answered Santa Ana’s call for surrender with a bold shot from the Alamo’s cannon. Furious, the Mexican general ordered his forces to launch a siege. On March 6, Mexican forces stormed the Alamo through a gap in the fort’s outer wall, killing Travis, Bowie, the legendary Davy Crockett and 190 of their men. Despite the loss of the fort, the Texan troops managed to inflict huge losses on their enemy, killing at least 600 of Santa Ana’s men.
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