| Henry Stuart Foote - 1841 - 416 pagina’s
...country. Victory or Death ! W. BARRET TRAVIS, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding. PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. rri » The next communication from Colonel Travis was dated March 3d, and was as follows : "TO THE... | |
| William Kennedy - 1841 - 574 pagina’s
...forgets what is due to his own honour and that of his country. " The Lord," he adds, " is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and got withio the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." The Convention of Delegates for Texas, invested... | |
| William Kennedy - 1841 - 562 pagina’s
...forgets what is due to his own honour and that of his country. " The Lord," he adds, " is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and got withip the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." The Convention of Delegates for Texas, invested... | |
| J. M. Morphis - 1874 - 620 pagina’s
...Victory or death ! "W. BAEIIET TKAVIS, "Lieutenant- Colonel commanding. " PS — The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. " T." On the 1st of March he was joined by thirty-two men from Gonzales, who increased his force to... | |
| J. M. Morphis - 1875 - 634 pagina’s
...Victory or death ! "W. BAREET TRAVIS, "Lieutenant- Colonel commanding. " P. 8.—The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. " T." .On the 1st of March he was joined by thirty-two men from Gonzales, who increased his force to... | |
| Homer S. Thrall - 1883 - 910 pagina’s
...honor and that of his country. Victory or death! " In a postscript he added: " The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...ninety bushels, and got into the walls twenty or thirty beeves." On the 3d of March, he wrote again to the Convention at Washington: "I am M:]| here, iu fine... | |
| Hiram H. McLane - 1886 - 132 pagina’s
...myself As long as possible, And this I've added, by way of postscript : " The Lord is on our side. "When the enemy appeared in sight, We had not three...found, in deserted houses Eighty or ninety bushels, And gotten into the walls Twenty or thirty head of beeves." And this I must, with all dispatch, Send off... | |
| Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker - 1888 - 266 pagina’s
...VICTORY OB DEATH ! "W. BARRET TRAVIS, " Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. " PS — The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...in deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and have gotten into the walls, twenty-nine or thirty beeves. T." Succeeding Days of the Siege. — Eloquent,... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 850 pagina’s
...receipt of the first intimation of Santa Anna's approach. In his letter of February 24th he wrote: "When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." 10 His supply of ammunition, too, was small; but under all the unequal circumstances with which he... | |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 864 pagina’s
...receipt of the first intimation of Santa Anna's approach. In his letter of February 24th he wrote : " When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." 10 His supply of ammunition, too, was small; but under all the unequal circumstances with which he... | |
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