If you were to go to The Alamo and stop there you would have missed the best part. The big event happened at San Jacinto TX outside of Houston about a month later in 1836. There on that battlefield, with the words "remember (the massacre at) The Alamo" the Soldiers under the command of Sam Houston defeated a larger Mexican Army under Santa Anna in a decisive 18 minute battle that changed the eventual face of America. There is a very cool monument and museum on the site. And the coolest was walking in the grove with the handful of grave markers of the men who gave their lives on that day to give us nearly 1/4 of the United States that we know. It was very, very cool to be there and to understand how all this affected our lives today.