The Alamo, where the defeat of Texas revolutionaries by Mexican forces inspired an iconic battle cry, marks its 189th ...

But in the 1840s United States ... seen as an inferior religion for those in the invading army. In Mexico, the Irish watched homes burn, and violence, looting, and sexual assaults by US soldiers.

"The Mexican army won the battle of the Alamo ... the site fell into disrepair until the U.S. Army took it over in the 1840s as a supply hub, only to be abandoned again with the building of ...