Fifty fell at that single spot before the rifles, yet they succeeded in dragging up a cannon, thrust its muzzle in at the door and fired it twice loaded with grape shot into the room.
The Texans were cut down by the shower of missiles, and the whole place was filled with smoke.

Then the Mexicans rushed in and the few Texans who had survived the grape shot fell fighting to the last with their clubbed rifles.

Here lay Travis of the white soul and beside him fell the brave Bonham, who had gone out for help, and who had returned to die with his comrades.

The Texans who had defended the room against so many were only fifteen in number, and they were all silent now.

Now the whole attack converged on the church, the strongest part of the Alamo, where the Texans were making their last stand.