THE ALAMO Mission Site — San Antonio, Texas Status: Historic site · Access: Open to public Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/the-alamo-san-antonio-texas/ 1836 mission-fortress where legend says the defenders still guard the walls. The Alamo is a mission site in San Antonio, Texas. 1836 mission-fortress where legend says the defenders still guard the walls. It sits in the archive under dark history, battlefields and local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. The site is open to visitors. The Alamo was a mission for a century before it was a battle. Franciscans founded San Antonio de Valero in 1718 — first of the five missions on the San Antonio River — to convert the Coahuiltecan peoples and anchor Spain's claim to Texas. The chapel's cornerstone was laid in 1744; the mission secularized in 1793; and the Spanish cavalry company from Álamo de Parras that garrisoned it after 1803 probably gave it the name — though the cottonwoods along the acequia claim the honor too. The thirteen days that made it famous came in February-March 1836 — Travis's letter 'To the People of Texas & All Americans in the World' ('I shall never surrender or retreat'), Santa Anna's arrival a month before anyone expected him, the ~200 defenders behind the unfinished walls, the final predawn assault on March 6 that killed Travis, Bowie, Crockett, and every fighting man inside. Santa Anna won the fort and lost the war — 'Remember the Alamo' carried Houston's army to San Jacinto six weeks later. The site kept changing masters — Spain, Mexico, Texas, the United States, the Confederacy, the Army's quartermaster depot, then the Daughters of the Republic of Texas who fought the 'second battle of the Alamo' to save the church and Long Barrack from demolition. What's left — the church facade everyone knows, the Long Barrack where the last stand happened — is a fragment of the original compound, in the middle of a city that grew around it. The Alamo is the archive's remembered file — the 1718 mission turned fortress where 200 defenders died on March 6, 1836, the defeat that became the rallying cry that won Texas, preserved by the women who fought its second battle. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS The Alamo is the archive's thirteen-days file — Mission San Antonio de Valero since 1718, the fortress where Travis, Bowie, and Crockett died March 6, 1836, and the rallying cry that decided San Jacinto. A mission that became a symbol keeps its facade — the file's suggestion being that the Alamo's hold is the transformation: the church that was a fortress that was a defeat that won a republic, under the most recognized profile in Texas. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Documented legend] apparition: Lore describes soldiers on the walls and a figure in the chapel—reported since the 19th century. The Alamo in San Antonio, Texas carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The account appears in 'Battle of the Alamo'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Battle of the Alamo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · [1836-03-06] The 13-day siege ended March 6, 1836 with the death of all ~200 defenders—Crockett, Bowie and Travis among them. The documented date is 1836-03-06. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Battle of the Alamo' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry. SOURCES — 1 cited · Battle of the Alamo — Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/