During the 1836 siege of the Alamo, a small group of Texan defenders hold out against the vastly larger Mexican army for 13 days before succumbing in a historic battle for independence.

Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.

The story of the famed siege of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution, in which a small band of soldiers held off an overwhelming army under the Mexican general Santa Anna long enough to allow the ...

$32.95. ISBN: 1932033939. In Exodus from the Alamo, Tucker, author of Westerners in Gray (2007), The Final Fury: Palmito Ranch, the Last Battle of the Civil War (2001), and a number of other works, ...