The Travis Letter: Victory or Death
Reliving the Alamo Siege on Its 190th Anniversary Imagine, if you will, the dusty chill of a late February dawn in 1836 Bexar—modern-day San Antonio. The air hangs heavy with the scent of gunpowder and mesquite smoke, the distant lowing of scavenged cattle mingling with the rhythmic thud of Mexican artillery. It's been scarcely a day since General Antonio López de Santa Anna's forces unfurled their blood-red flag from the tower of San Fernando Cathedral, signaling no quarter for the rebels holed up in the old mission turned fortress: the Alamo. And here, on this very date—February 24, exactly 190 years…