The Texan rebels took The Alamo in December of 1835. In January, the rebels received news that Mexican General Santa Anna was marching north with a large army, but the disorganized Texan government could not get enough reinforcements to the Texan rebels fortified in The Alamo. A force of 5,000 Mexican soldiers arrived in San Antonio on February 23, 1836.
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Known today as The Alamo, this Spanish mission complex was the first of the San Antonio missions founded to convert the local American Indians to Christianity. The mission eventually became a community of Spanish, Mexican, and American Indian Catholics
Social Darwinian extended into theories of race and racism, eugenics, the claimed national superiority of one people over another, and immigration law.
