Preserving The Alamo Thesis

10/9/17

Preserving the Alamo

By Anandatheertha

The alamo stands at the center of one of Texas’ most historical cities, San Antonio and it is visited a lot. The Alamo was a mission built as a Spanish mission in seventeen fourty four to help turn the natives of the land to follow Christianity and to show spanish dominance in New Spain(The Americas). When the Alamo was first built it was not a fort, it was a Spanish Mission and it was called, Mission San Antonio de Valero. Near the mission a town was founded and it was called, San Antonio de Bexar. It was the first of five missions in the San Antonio area.

Within a short period of time people were calling the old mission the Pueblo de la Compañía del Alamo. Eventually, the compound was just called the Alamo. Once the Alamo became secure, the Spanish began to use it as a military base due to french threats to conquer the Americas. Moses Austin wanted to populate Texas and he died as his plans were being approved. His son Stephen F. Austin carried on his work and became the first empresario of Texas, someone who settles the land. Although the system got off to a good start, the sheer number of Americans wanting to move to Texas quickly overwhelmed the Mexican

With help from the people to not litter there or pollute the garden and small things like that, it will stand for generations to come. I believe it is important that everyone is educated and knows about the Alamo and its significance to history and how history impacts us today. If everyone is educated about it and its deep history they won’t throw their plastic water bottle or their cigarette on the ground and go, “Who cares?” Another problem is that a lot of people that are educated, don’t care. The Battle of the Alamo shook Texas and the United States. We showed our strength, the only reason we lost the battle was because we were outnumbered one to twenty five