The Alamo - Revision history

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 Colonel James Clinton Neill was placed in command of the Alamo, and he immediately set to improving the defenses; however, both himself and his superior, General [[Sam Houston]], knew that it was only a matter of time before Centralist troops arrived in force.  On January 17, 1836 Houston informed provisional governor Henry Smith that an abandonment of the Alamo was necessary.  "I have ordered the fortifications in the town of Bexar to be demolished," he wrote, "and, if you should think well of it, I will remove all the cannon and other munitions of war to Gonzales and Copano, blow up the Alamo and abandon the place, as it will be impossible to keep up the Station with volunteers, the sooner I can be authorized the better it will be for the country."  Regular soldiers stationed within Bexar were few - about thirty men - and there were a slightly larger number of volunteers.  Smith decided against abandoning the Alamo.
-On the same day Houston wrote his message another group of volunteers arrived under the command of Colonel [[James Bowie]], a proven fighter whose favorite weapon was a massive knife which bears his name.  Neill soon convinced Bowie to stay, convincing him that the Alamo was the only defensive fortification along the camino real between Santa Anna's forces and the Anlgo settlements to the north.  Bowie's letter to Smith describing the nature of the defences and his resolve to never surrender the fort may have played a role in turning down Houston's request; nevertheless the governor managed to send additional troops and provisions.
+On the same day Houston wrote his message another group of volunteers arrived under the command of Colonel [[Jim Bowie | James Bowie]], a proven fighter whose favorite weapon was a massive knife which bears his name.  Neill soon convinced Bowie to stay, convincing him that the Alamo was the only defensive fortification along the camino real between Santa Anna's forces and the Anlgo settlements to the north.  Bowie's letter to Smith describing the nature of the defences and his resolve to never surrender the fort may have played a role in turning down Houston's request; nevertheless the governor managed to send additional troops and provisions.
 On February 3, a unit of cavalry arrived in Bexar under orders from Smith and reported to Neill; its commander was Lt. Colonel [[William B. Travis]], who was made second-in-command; he would himself be in command - albeit temporarily - when Neill left on an emergency furlough on February 14.  Despite being sent to Bexar against his wishes, Travis was soon committed to the Alamo, calling it "the key to Texas".  During this time other volunteers trickled in, some from Goliad, others from Gonzales, and one large group from [[Tennessee]] under a one-time United States Congressman and frontiersman who was a legend in his own lifetime, [[Davy Crockett]].  The number of fighting men swelled to 189.

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	In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party\|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a former history department chairman at [[Texas A&M University]], and a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges\|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges\|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''\|date=September 8, 2018\|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>		In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party\|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a former history department chairman at [[Texas A&M University]], and a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges\|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges\|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''\|date=September 8, 2018\|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>
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		+	*[[Rick Range]], Alamo scholar

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 In March 2018, ''The San Antonio Express-News'' reported that the Texas General Land Office under Commissioner [[George P. Bush]], son of former [[Florida]] [[Governor]] [[Jeb Bush]],  is paying the Alamo chief executive officer, Douglass W. McDonald, a museum consultant from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], $2,000 per day under a one-year contract that extends through September. Payment, however, is limited to fourteen days per month; hence McDonald's annual salary is $336,000, more than double that of Commissioner Bush. The Alamo and its multui-year master plan are managed by several non-profit organizations on which Bush is a board member. Gene Powell of the Alamo Endowment said that the state made a good deal in retaining McDonald: "He is costing us a lot less than if we had gone out and hired a new CEO, based on the prices we have looked at."<ref>Allie Morris and Scott Huddleston, "Alamo's boss is paid $2,000 a day: But he does not charge for all the time he puts in", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', March 30, 2018, pp. 1, A8.</ref>
-In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a former history department chairman at [[Texas A&M University]]], and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=September 8, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>
+In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a former history department chairman at [[Texas A&M University]], and a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''|date=September 8, 2018|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>
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	In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party\|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges\|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges\|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''\|date=September 8, 2018\|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>		In September 2018, it was announced that a Texas school curriculum committee had recommended the previous month that educators refrain from calling Alamo defenders "heroic" The recommendation drew the ire of [[Republican Party\|Republican]] [[Governor]] [[Greg Abbott]], a candidate for re-election in the November 6 general, who urged voters to express opposition to the recommendation to their elected district member on the Texas Board of Education. The recommendation was among several hundred additions, deletions, and tweaks offered by the advisory group reviewing social studies curriculum standards The panel said "heroic" is "a value(s)-charged word." Committee member Walter Louis Buenger, a professor of history at the [[University of Texas at Austin]] and a [[Democratic Party\|Democrat]], said that he could understand why the word 'heroic' is divisive: Many times the Alamo gets boiled down, as it often does in movies, to the Mexicans are the bad guys and the good guys are good Anglos in coonskin caps." He noted that at least six Mexicans, calling themselves Texians, fought with the American defenders. "Part of the problem with the word heroic may be that it's too simplistic," Buenger added. However, Thomas Lindsay, director of the Center for Innovation in Education for the free-market Texas Public Policy Foundation, said that it is appropriate for educators to "teach students who the good guys and bad guys are in history books."<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/09/07/dont-call-alamos-defenders-heroic-texas-school-curriculum-panel-urges\|title=Don't call the Alamo's defenders 'heroic', Texas school curriculum panel urges\|publisher=''The Dallas Morning News''\|date=September 8, 2018\|accessdate=September 9, 2018}}</ref>
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 ==History==
 [[File:Alamo dagerotype.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Taken in 1849, this is the oldest-known photograph of the Alamo.]]
-Misión San Antonio de Valero was one of five missions constructed in the region that was later to become San Antonio de Bexar; the Valero mission's foundation was laid in 1724, and served the area for some seventy years.  About 1793 the missions and the land they were on were divided and given over to the control of the Indian inhabitants, who continued to be productive farmers in the small San Antonio community while the mission buildings lay abandoned.
+Misión San Antonio de Valero was one of five missions constructed in the region that was later to become San Antonio de Bexar; the Valero mission's foundation was laid in 1724, and served the area for some seventy years.  About 1793, the missions and the lands were divided and given over to the control of the Indian inhabitants, who continued to be productive farmers in the small San Antonio community while the mission buildings lay abandoned.
 The Valero mission was inhabited again in the early-1800s, this time by a contingent of cavalry soldiers from the Coahuila town of Alamo de Parras, who gave the old ruins its present name from the familiar cottonwood trees which had grown about the site.  The commander of the unit would build and establish the first hospital in Texas in what is called the Long Barrack, a structure built in front of and to the north of the main church building.  The West Wall and South Barrack structures would be built prior to 1830, as the Alamo site grew into a fortification which served the military units of Spain and Mexico.
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-In March 2018, ''The San Antonio Express-News'' reported that the Texas General Land Office under Commissioner [[George P. Bush]] is paying the Alamo chief executive officer, Douglass W. McDonald, a museum consultant from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], $2,000 per day under a one-year contract that extends through September. Payment, however, is limited to fourteen days per month; hence McDonald's annual salary is $336,000, more than double that of Commissioner Bush. The Alamo and its multui-year master plan are managed by several non-profit organizations on which Bush is a board member. Gene Powell of the Alamo Endowment said that the state made a good deal in retaining McDonald: "He is costing us a lot less than if we had gone out and hired a new CEO, based on the prices we have looked at."<ref>Allie Morris and Scott Huddleston, "Alamo's boss is paid $2,000 a day: But he does not charge for all the time he puts in", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', March 30, 2018, pp. 1, A8.</ref>
+In March 2018, ''The San Antonio Express-News'' reported that the Texas General Land Office under Commissioner [[George P. Bush]], son of former [[Florida]] [[Governor]] [[Jeb Bush]],  is paying the Alamo chief executive officer, Douglass W. McDonald, a museum consultant from [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], $2,000 per day under a one-year contract that extends through September. Payment, however, is limited to fourteen days per month; hence McDonald's annual salary is $336,000, more than double that of Commissioner Bush. The Alamo and its multui-year master plan are managed by several non-profit organizations on which Bush is a board member. Gene Powell of the Alamo Endowment said that the state made a good deal in retaining McDonald: "He is costing us a lot less than if we had gone out and hired a new CEO, based on the prices we have looked at."<ref>Allie Morris and Scott Huddleston, "Alamo's boss is paid $2,000 a day: But he does not charge for all the time he puts in", ''The San Antonio Express-News'', March 30, 2018, pp. 1, A8.</ref>
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