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Why is everyone supposed to remember The Alamo?

Retry Correct Incorrect Although the Alamo’s defenders were famously defiant and effective despite being outnumbered almost ten times over, the fact that they were massacred inspired a surge of military enlistments within the nascent Republic of Texas. After defeating the Mexican Army at the Battle of San Jacinto over a month later, Texas gained its independence from Mexico in April 1836.

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DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images

DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images

Why is everyone supposed to remember The Alamo?

• A peaceful resolution to the Texan War Of Independence happened at this mission
• Pee-Wee Herman’s bike is still in its basement
• A doomed battle that nonetheless turned the tide in Texan independence
• The battle that ended the Mexican-American war took place there