A second body of horsemen charged from a different angle, and Ned distinctly saw Urrea at their head.

He fired, but the bullet missed the partisan leader and brought down another man behind him.
"There are good pickings here," said Davy Crockett, "but they'll soon be too many for us.

Come on, Ned, boy! Our place is behind them walls!" "Yes," repeated Bowie, who was near.

"It's the Alamo or nothing.

No matter how fast we fired our rifles we'd soon be trod under foot by the Mexicans." They passed in, Bowie, Crockett and Ned forming the rear guard.