The shoot-out comes on the anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo mission in San Antonio in March 1836.
The Mexicans eventually overwhelmed the tiny Texan force there, but the delay cost them the war.
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This is historically inaccurate. The Mexicans lost entirely because of Santa Anna's monumental incompetence. Houston simply caught him one morning when he was hung over after a night's debauchery.