More than 30 Burnet County officials and residents attended the commemoration of a new bronze- and gold-colored, compact-sized plaque that replicates word-for-word the “Victory or Death” letter composed during the Texas Revolution at the Alamo by Col. William B. Travis.
The plaque details what Travis wrote and dispatched hours before thousands of Mexican army soldiers killed Travis and more than 180 Texas nationalists huddled inside the Alamo mission in what is now San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
County Judge James Oakley hosted the event Oct. 18 in Burnet at the county courthouse south lawn, 220 South Pierce St.
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