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Alamo Anahuac April Archives arrived Austin battle of San Beason's boys Brazoria Brazos Brazos river brother Buffalo Bayou Cabeza de Vaca camp Captain captured Chichimecas Colonel Colorado command corn cotton creek crossing Deaf Smith Dyer Edwin Waller encamped enemy Father fight Filisola fire friends Galveston garrison gone Gonzales guard halt Harris Harrisburg Harvey Stafford heard History of Texas horse Houston hundred Indians Judge Waller June land Leon county lived Manuel de Salcedo Matamoros Mexico miles morning mother Nacogdoches Nahoa negro neighborhood night o'clock officers Orleans Otomies oxen prairie President prisoners QUARTERLY retreat returned river road Roark route Rusk Salcedo San Antonio San Felipe San Jacinto Santa Anna says schooner sent sister soldiers soon TERM ENDING Texans told took town Travis Trinity troops Uncle James Velasco Vince's Vince's bridge wagon Yoakum young
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Pàgina 260 - SiR: I regret extremely that my situation, since the battle of the 21st, has been such as to prevent my rendering you my official report of the same, previous to this time.
Pàgina 264 - General to attempt discrimination as to the conduct of those who commanded in the action, or those who were commanded, would be impossible. Our success in the action is conclusive proof of such daring intrepidity and courage; every officer and man proved himself worthy of the cause in which he battled, while the triumph received a lustre from the humanity which characterized their conduct after victory, and richly entitles them to the admiration and gratitude of their general. Nor should we withhold...
Pàgina 324 - At half-past three o'clock in the evening, I ordered the officers of the Texan army to parade their respective commands, having in the meantime ordered the bridge on the only road communicating with the Brazos, distant eight miles from our encampment, to be destroyed, thus cutting off all possibility of escape.
Pàgina 44 - America, for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Pàgina 321 - This morning we are in preparation to meet Santa Anna. It is the only chance of saving Texas. From time to time, I have looked for reinforcements in vain. The convention adjourning to Harrisburg, struck panic throughout the country. Texas could have started at least fuur thousand men. We will only have about seven hundred to march with, besides the camp guard. We go to conquer.
Pàgina 260 - Anna, with one division of choice troops, had marched in the direction of Lynch's Ferry on the San Jacinto, burning Harrisburg as he passed down. The army was ordered to be in readiness to march early on the next morning. The main body effected a crossing over Buffalo Bayou, below Harrisburg, on the morning of the 1gth, having left the baggage, the sick, and a sufficient camp guard in the rear.
Pàgina 262 - ... from that point, agreeably to the previous design of the troops. . Every evolution was performed with alacrity, the whole advancing rapidly in line, and through an open prairie, without any protection whatever for our men. The artillery advanced and took station within two hundred yards of the enemy's breastwork, and commenced an effective fire with grape and canister.
Pàgina 30 - ... head he ought not to go that way, nor was that our direction. I believe we had been traveling twenty days or more in this direction, at the end of which we found another settlement of Indians of the same sort and way of living as those behind, among whom there was an old blind man with a beard, who gave us to understand, by signs which he made, that he had seen four others like us many days before, whom he had seen near there and rather more toward New Spain, and we so understood him, and presumed...
Pàgina 262 - The second regiment, under the command of Colonel Sherman, formed the left wing of the army. The artillery under the special command of Colonel George W. Hockley, Inspector-General, was placed on the right of the first regiment; and four companies of infantry, under the command of Lieut.-Col.
Pàgina 262 - B. Lamar, whose gallant and daring conduct on the previous day had attracted the admiration of his comrades and called him to that station, placed on our extreme right, completed our line. Our cavalry was first dispatched to the front of the enemy's left, for the purpose of attracting their notice, whilst...