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Definition of the alamo in Portuguese Turkish dictionary
- álamo
- kavak ağacı
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Definition of the alamo in English English dictionary
- chapel in San Antonio Texas (USA) that was converted into a fortress, site of the 1836 massacre of Americans by Mexicans during the fight for Texan independence (U.S. History)
- Alamo
- Something heavily guarded
- Alamo
- An infamous fort in San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Alamo
- a mission building in San Antonio in Texas, where a famous battle took place in 1836, when the US and Mexico were fighting each other for the control of Texas. The Alamo was defended against 4000 Mexican soldiers by only 180 Americans. Eighteenth-century mission in San Antonio, Texas, site of a historic siege of a small group of Texans by a Mexican army (1836) during the Texas war for independence from Mexico. The abandoned mission was occupied occasionally by Spanish troops, who named it the Alamo ("cottonwood") after the surrounding trees. At the start of the war in December 1835, volunteers occupied the Alamo and vowed to fight to the death any attempt to recapture it. In February 1836 a Mexican army of several thousand began a siege that lasted 13 days. The Texan force of about 180, led by Jim Bowie and including Davy Crockett, was overrun; nearly all the defenders were killed (about 15 persons, mostly women and children, were spared). Mexican casualties were at least 600. "Remember the Alamo!" became a rallying cry for Texans through the remainder of the war
- alamo
- A poplar tree of Southwestern U.S.; the cottonwood
- alamo
- {i} poplar tree common the the southwestern United States
- alamo
- the mission in San Antonio where in 1836 Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
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the alamo
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the Al·a·moTurkish pronunciation
dhi älımōPronunciation
/ᴛʜē ˈaləmō/ /ðiː ˈæləmoʊ/
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