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Title: Ruins of the Church of the Alamo

Description: Ruins of the Church of the Alamo, San Antonio de Bexar; an 1846 lithograph depicting the city of San Antonio de Bexar, Texas, before the Mexican-American war (1846-1848); the city, later to be renamed simply San Antonio by the U.S., was the scene of the march of a division of the army of U.S. Gen. John Ellis Wool (February 20, 1784-November 10, 1869) from there to Saltillo early in the war; the lithograph shows the ruins of the Church of the Alamo, the Spanish Franciscan mission in which 188 American troops fought and died in the Texan War of Independence in February 1836; thirty women and children were spared in the twelve-day siege in which 1,600 Mexicans died. The battle gave rise to the war cry "Remember the Alamo!" the Mexican-American war was a U.S. and Mexican territorial dispute between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers that led to open war between the two countries on May 13, 1846; the war ended with U.S. troops in possession of California, the Southwest, northern Mexico, and central Mexico from Veracruz to Mexico City; in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded to the U.S. the territories of California and New Mexico and all the land up to the Rio Grande River, and also relinquished its claim to Texas; in return, the U.S. paid Mexico $15 million;

Category: Mexican-American War

Keywords: Alamo, Battle of the Alamo, battles, churches, Mexican War (1846-1848), Mexican-American War (1846-1848), Mexico, missions, Remember the Alamo!, San Antonio de Bexar, San Antonio, Texas, Texan War of Independence, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, United States, U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848), 1840s.