My men fought well, and we repulsed them with a loss of fully a hundred men." "Bravo, sir, bravo! I shall not fail to mention the service that you have rendered in my report of the affair.

Have you lost any men ?" "No, sir; they lay down until the enemy were within twenty paces of us, and their volleys and the two cannon created such a confusion among the Spaniards that when we went at them with the bayonet they fled at once, and I have not a single man killed, and only two or three slightly wounded." "We have only lost twenty," the general said, "and most of those were killed while serving the guns.

That was a small price indeed to pay for our magnificent success.".