Marty Robbins - Ballad Of The Alamo

Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.

One of the most popular and successful American country and Western singers of his era, for most of his nearly four-decade career, Robbins was rarely far from the country music charts, and several of his songs also became pop hits.

The Alamo, originally known as Mission San Antonio de Valero, is a former Roman Catholic mission and fortress compound, now a museum, in San Antonio, Texas. The compound, which originally comprised a sanctuary and surrounding buildings, was built by the Spanish Empire in the 18th century for the education of local Native Americans after their conversion to Christianity. In 1793, the mission was secularized and soon abandoned. Ten years later, it became a fortress housing the Mexican Army group the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras, who likely gave the mission the name "Alamo".

Mexican soldiers held the mission until December 1835, when General Martin Perfecto de Cos surrendered it to the Texian Army following the siege of Bexar. A relatively small number of Texian soldiers then occupied the compound. Texian General Sam Houston believed the Texians did not have the manpower to hold the fort and ordered Colonel James Bowie to destroy it. Bowie chose to disregard those orders and instead worked with Colonel James C. Neill to fortify the mission. On February 23, Mexican General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna led a large force of Mexican soldiers into San Antonio de Bexar and promptly initiated a siege. The siege ended on March 6, when the Mexican army attacked the Alamo; by the end of the Battle of the Alamo all or almost all of the defenders were killed. When the Mexican army retreated from Texas at the end of the Texas Revolution, they tore down many of the Alamo walls and burned some of the buildings.

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[TheLSK]

@chauchat3137 Not America...Texas lost that and Goliad before victory at San Jacinto. We at that time were part of Mexico and the Texians, as we were called then, were loyal citizens of Mexico. The problems started when Santa Anna turned into a tyrant. Texas entery into the US didn't happen until later.

[WinstonsPapa]

WOW! Thanks for the post! CHEERS to Marty Robbins!

[chauchat3137]

@shadowghost1213 thank you, im doing a study of the alamo in history, but i live in canada XD yeah i think america was fighting over texas??

[shadowghost1213]

@chauchat3137 Well the Mexican forces one but the Texans weren't part of the USA during the war,Texas became part of the USA after.

[chauchat3137]

i would like to visit the site on witch the alamo was fought, if im not mistaken america lost against mexico??

[thisolcowboy21]

im from texas and ive been to the alamo its a truely awe inspireing story god bless jim bowie and william travis

[weneedheroesnow]

@xXabbiXx100 You'll understand what it mean to be free.

[xXabbiXx100]

my social studies teacher played this and now im hooked

on it