He stood on an elevation at the church door, surrounded by his officers and the priests, and unfurled the Mexican flag." "That was about eleven o'clock, Captain ?" "Si, Senorita.

You are precisely exact." "I heard at that hour a dull roar of human voices--a roar like nothing on earth but the distant roar of the ocean." "To be sure; it was the shouting of the people.

When all was still, Fray Ignatius blessed the flag, and sprinkled over it holy water.

Then Santa Anna raised it to his lips and kissed it.

Holy Maria! another shout.
Then he crossed his sword upon the flag, and cried out--'Soldados! you are here to defend this banner, which is the emblem of your holy faith and of your native land, against heretics, infidels and ungrateful traitors.