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Alamo battle featured many flags

An early Alamo postcard showing the six flags over Texas.

One of the earliest accounts of the fall of the Alamo, the famous battle in the drive for Texas independence from Mexico, appeared in The Louisiana Advertiser. It ran about three weeks after the March 6, 1836, assault that captured the former mission and killed – among scores of others – Davy Crockett and Jim… continue