San Antonio

called also San Antonio de Bexar . A city of Texas, U. S., is built near the sources of the San Antonio River, 110 miles southwest of Austin. It is one of the oldest Spanish towns on the continent, and in the Texan revolution of 1836 was the scene of the ma acre of the Alamo, when a garrison of 150 men, led by Col. Travis, and including David Crockett, was surrounded by several you sand Mexicans, and after a heroic resistance killed to the last man. It contains a national arsenal.