In the following year, though they had again defended San Antonio against the Spaniards, the Mexicans drove all the Americans out of the city their rifles had saved." "You were here; tell me the true reason." "It was not altogether ingratitude.

It was the instinct of self-preservation.

The very bravery of the Americans made the men whom they had defended hate and fear them; and there was a continual influx of young men from the States.

The Mexicans said to each other: 'There is no end to these Americans.

Very soon they will make a quarrel and turn their arms against us.