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Welcome to the Alamo Heroes website! Come in and view our site to learn the many inspiring details of the historic events surrounding the Alamo, its heroes and the great state of Texas. Originally built in 1718 as Mission San Antonio de Valero in what would become San Antonio, Texas, the Alamo, "The Cradle of Texas Liberty," was the first of the area's five Spanish missions. It was initially built on three acres of land and had stone walls around it ten to twelve feet high such as surround various Spanish monasteries still found today in many Mexican cities such as Guadalajara or Monterrey. The Alamo was built as a vocational school to educate the Indians in farming and agricultural skills like cattle raising, weaving, carpentry and stone masonry.

With Santa Anna's army on the move heading north toward Texas, on January 19, 1836, Sam Houston ordered the Alamo's guns removed and the walls blown up. The order to destroy the Alamo was delivered by none other than Jim Bowie himself, but it was never carried out by the men stationed there. At that time, the mission was in disrepair. It had the "low barracks" building on the south side, and on the west side of the Alamo was a series of adobe huts protected by a stone wall which also ran across the north side. The east side of the Alamo was actually a two story building called the long barracks, convent and hospital. The Alamo church sat in the south east corner facing west. According to Alamo historians, it was only through the military engineer Green Jameson's inspiration that the Alamo mission was able to be fortified to defend against Santa Anna's army.

The most famous Alamo heroes, William Barrett Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett, died so bravely and valiently inside her walls, along with many other great men, like Jacob Darst and the contingency force from Gonzales, William Bonham, and almost 200 known Texas heroes who were joined by what are believed to be a couple hundred more unidentified local residents who fought alongside them inside the Alamo against Santa Anna's Mexican army.