Then Crockett's eyes came back to the arched rooms and the covered sacristy.
"This is the real fort," he said, "an' we'll put our gunpowder in that sacristy.

It looks like sacrilege to use a church for such a purpose, but, Ned, times are goin' to be very hot here, the hottest we ever saw, an' we must protect our powder." He carried his suggestion to Travis, who adopted it at once, and the powder was quickly taken into the rooms.

They also had fourteen pieces of cannon which they mounted on the walls of the church, at the stockade at the entrance to the plaza and at the redoubt.

But the Texans, frontiersmen and not regular soldiers, did not place much reliance upon the cannon.

Their favorite weapon was the rifle, with which they rarely missed even at long range.
It took the Texans but little time to arrange the defence, and then came a pause.