Santa Anna paled more than once when he saw his men falling so fast.
"They cannot recoil! They cannot!" he cried.
But they did.

The column led by Colonel Duque, a brave man, was now at the northern wall, and the men were rushing forward with the crowbars, axes and scaling ladders.

The Texan rifles, never more deadly, sent down a storm of bullets upon them.

A score of men fell all at once.

Among them was Duque, wounded terribly.