Mission San Antonio de Valero...The Alamo...after the death of the Texas Patriots and its capture by Santa Ana "Thermopylae had its messenger of death; the Alamo had none." The Old Spanish Mission San Antonio de Valero Known As THE ALAMO Shrine of Texas Liberty And The Historic Story of the Founding of San Antonio and its Five Spanish Missions ....And its Governmental and Military Establishments .... And the Extensive Irrigating Systems and other Old Spanish Y/orks .... And the Fall of San Antonio in the Texas War with Mexico.... And Final Victory of the Texas Patriots And Rise of the Texas Republic........... By Harral Ayres / i 0 ('«.••• a .. t- U , . , ; San Antonio, Texas 1952