A veteran firefighter is forced to retire at age 65 by the Fire Department. However, when one of his friends dies in a blaze set by a serial arsonist, the now retired fireman teams up with his daughter and her fiance, who is an investigator for an insurance company, to hunt down and capture the arsonist.
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.
A little girl is left by her father in an exclusive seminary for girls, due to her father having to go to South Africa to fight in the Second Boer War.
