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For decades Phil Collins has been accumulating a huge collection of memorabilia from the legendary siege of the Alamo.
Now the 70-year-old Genesis frontman's hoard of weapons, clothing, letters and other artefacts are at the centre of another battle – a very modern one about race.
Critics argue the collection helps perpetuate a narrative that focuses only on the battle's white leaders and ignores Latinos, Native Americans and black figures.
Pictured in San Antonio, Texas, British music legend Phil Collins donates what is considered to be the biggest collection of Alamo artefacts to the people of Texas
On the other side are those who want the Alamo museum in Texas to simply remember the core participants of the 1836 battle between Texan rebels and Mexican soldiers.
Collins has been obsessed since childhood with the battle and even believes he is a reincarnation of one of the defenders.
He says he became fixated on the battle as a child growing up in Hounslow, west London, watching a 1950s
