The Battle of the Alamo occurred between February 1836 through March of the same year, during the Texas Revolution. Over two thousand Mexican soldiers besieged the Alamo Mission, a small fort in San Antonio, Texas, with just one hundred and fifty-five Texans defending it. Although the Mexicans over-ran the fort eventually, they had six hundred casualties due to the tenacity of the defenders. Two of the more famous heroes of the Alamo was the Tennessean, Davy Crockett and James Bowie.