It was glorious that these defenders of the Alamo, comrades of his, should have fallen to the last man.

The full splendor of their achievement suddenly burst in a dazzling vision before him.

Texans who furnished such valor could not be conquered.

Santa Anna might have twenty to one or fifty to one or a hundred to one, in the end it would not matter.
The mood endured.

He looked upon the dead faces of Travis and Bonham also, and he was not shaken.