The Alamo in 1836

In 1836, the Alamo included the ruined mission church of San Antonio de Valero with three cannons mounted on a platform at the rear; a low double stockade packed with dirt enclosing the old mission graveyard, an area defended by Davy Crockett; the old mission convent, with barracks and an armory downstairs, a hospital upstairs, and a back courtyard that formerly had two-story arched corridors; a corral enclosed with a picket fence; adobe houses; a battery of cannons called Teran by the Mexicans, on whose ramp Gov. Travis was killed; a battery of cannons called Fortin de Condelle by the Mexicans; the west wall of the plaza, formerly mission Indian houses, some with arched corridors; the location of an eighteen-pound cannon, the largest in the fort; a jail; a main gate with tower defended by two cannons in an exterior earthwork; an interior barricade defending the main gate; low barracks; a well; three unmounted cannons; and an acequia, or irrigation ditch.

San Antonio, Texas · United States