His subordinates would destroy the wandering bands of Texans.

Then he did another thing that appealed to his vanity.

He wrote a proclamation to the Texans announcing the fall of the Alamo, and directing them to submit at once, on pain of death, to his authority.

He called for Mrs.Dickinson, the young wife, now widow, whom the gallantry of Almonte had saved from massacre in the Alamo.

He directed her to take his threat to the Texans at Gonzales, and she willingly accepted.