No one says, “Remember the Siege of Bexar!” when it comes to the Texas Revolution. But in all likelihood, many in San Antonio were thinking just that, about 190 years ago.
There are a number of reasons for that. The engagement between the Mexican Army and Texian revolutionaries also has been called the Battle of Bexar and the Battle of San Antonio. But Bexar — as in the city’s old name, San Fernando de Bexar — doesn’t roll off the tongue as easily as Alamo.
In addition, once the smoke cleared, the Texians had won. The battle’s outcome was not a tragedy to be avenged, as the Battle of the Alamo would be, but an encouragement to pursue the revolutionaries’ goal of independence from Mexico…