The Mexican colonel raised his sword, the drums beat, and the slaughter began.

Fifty men at a time were shot; and those whom the guns missed or crippled, were dispatched with the bayonet or lance." "You escaped.

How ?" "When the lips of the officer moved to give the order: Fire! I fell upon my face as if dead.

As I lay, I was pierced by a bayonet through the shoulder, but I made no sign of life.

After the execution, the camp followers came to rob the dead.