43/55 Nothing can resist the great, the powerful, the most illustrious Santa Anna. He is always able to dig graves for his enemies." The men talked further. Ned gathered from them that the whole force of Santa Anna was now present. Some of his officers wanted him to wait for siege artillery of the heaviest caliber that would batter down the walls of the Alamo, but the dictator himself was impatient for the assault. It would certainly take place the next morning. |