Throw those cultural ingredients into the pot, simmer for 40 years, and you have the first confirmed sighting of chilli con carne - cooked up on Alamo Plaza in the 1880s by street vendors who became known as the chilli queens.

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In American military mythology Custer's last stand ranks alongside the Battle of the Alamo, an attack by Mexican forces on a compound in Texas, which left all the defenders dead.

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He commanded Texan forces at the Battle of the Alamo and died there on March 6, 1836.

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He has left little doubt that he's a pro prospect, though he's got one more game the Alamo Bowl against Washington on Dec. 29 in San Antonio to show his stuff.

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