Welcome to second half of the virtual tour of the Texas state capitol building complex. In case you missed it, you may want to check out the inside of the capitol building first by clicking on this link.
The battle of the Alamo was fought on the sixth of March,
1836 between 189 Texan defenders and roughly 4000 Mexican
troops under General Santa Anna. All but three of the
Texans were killed, and it is estimated that some 1600
Mexicans lost their lives.
The battle of the Alamo symbolizes at once that old forgotten devotion
to liberty at any cost, and the idealistic determination
of those martyred men to die for freedom's cause. The men who were
slaughtered there knew nothing of the independence
declaration that had been signed. They still flew a
distortion of the Mexican flag with the number 1824
in the center, which referred to the republican
constitution that the Mexican dictator cast aside in
order to impose his evil rule.
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Many of the monuments on the grounds of the Texas
capitol building are in honor of those who fought and
died in the 1861 war between the Confederate Staes and the
United States. This war resulted in the end of slavery,
a practice that ended peacefully in other countries. Texas won the
final battle of the war in May of 1865, a full month
after General Lee's surrender. In March of
1870, the United States Congress readmitted Texas into
the United States. Reconstruction, however, continued for
another four years.
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The little plaque reads "DIED, for States Rights guaranteed under the constitution...".
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