Their balls very seldom reached us, though we were close to the ramparts; and we gathered them up by thousands, and sent them back with our double-Dupont powder.

THEN they did damage enough.

In fact, we have taken the Alamo with Mexican balls." "Under what flag did you fight, Roberto ?" "Under the Mexican republican flag of eighteen twenty-four; but indeed, Maria, I do not think we had one in the camp.

We were destitute of all the trappings of war--we had no uniforms, no music, no flags, no positive military discipline.

But we had one heart and mind, and one object in view; and this four days' fight has shown what men can do, who are moved by a single, grand idea." The Senora lay upon a sofa; the doctor sat by her side.