. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. Santa Anna is said to have expressed that the Alamo was chosento be defended bj-the Texans in l8o(i rather than the Mission Concepcion, affectingto recognize, more effective military points in the Concepcion Mission as a strong-hold. In 1849 the United States troops were quartered there for awhile and it issaid that they cleared the chapel of an immense amount of accumulated rubbishand bat guano. In the holes in the walls outside are to be found the nestingplaces of owls, pigeons, doves and other birds. To the south of the chapel,
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. Santa Anna is said to have expressed that the Alamo was chosento be defended bj-the Texans in l8o(i rather than the Mission Concepcion, affectingto recognize, more effective military points in the Concepcion Mission as a strong-hold. In 1849 the United States troops were quartered there for awhile and it issaid that they cleared the chapel of an immense amount of accumulated rubbishand bat guano. In the holes in the walls outside are to be found the nestingplaces of owls, pigeons, doves and other birds. To the south of the chapel,westerly, are a series of arches which were formerly cells, chambers and cloistersfor the Mission inmates, but now used as storage rooms and stables. To the * These quatrefoils are repeated over and over agaiu in the carved lozenges of the pillars in relief, andfrescoes of this Mission and at Sail Jos6. Whether there is any meaning attached to these particular forms ofthe cross beyond that they are crosses, the editor is unable to
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