Santa Anna's force was so great that already he was sending off large bodies to the eastward to attack Texan detachments wherever they could be found.
Fannin held an anxious council with his officers.

It was an open talk on the open prairie, and anybody who chose could listen.

Will Allen and Obed White said nothing, but the Panther was vehement.
"We've got to get there!" he exclaimed.

"We can't leave our people to die in the Alamo! We've got to cut our way through, an', if the worst comes to the worst, die with them!" "That would benefit nobody," said Fannin.

"We've made every human effort to get our cannon across the river, and we have failed.