Then we accepted the terms of capitulation offered by Urrea, and were marched back to Goliad as prisoners of war.

Santa Anna ordered us all to be shot." "But you were prisoners of war ?" "Urrea laughed at the articles, and said his only intention in them was to prevent the loss of Mexican blood.

Most of his officers remonstrated with with{sic} him, but he flew into a passion at Miralejes.

'The Senor Presidente's orders are not to be trifled with.

By the Virgin of Guadelupe!' he cried, 'it would be as much as my own life was worth to disobey them.' "It gave the Mexican soldiers pleasure to tell us these things, and though we scarcely believed such treachery possible, we were very uneasy.