PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found in deserted houses 80 or 90 bushels and got into the walls 20 or 30 head of Beeves. TRAVIS. Central America and Mexico - Page 390by Alcée Fortier, John Rose Ficklen - 1907 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 426 pages
...TRAVIS, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding. PS The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. rp » The next communication from Colonel Travis was dated March 3d, and was as follows : "TO THE PRESIDENT... | |
| William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 574 pages
...and that of his country. " The Lord," he adds, " is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and got withio the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." The Convention of Delegates for Texas, invested... | |
| William Kennedy - Texas - 1841 - 562 pages
...and that of his country. " The Lord," he adds, " is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and got withip the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves." The Convention of Delegates for Texas, invested... | |
| J. M. Morphis - Texas - 1874 - 620 pages
..."Lieutenant- Colonel commanding. " PS — The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. " T." On the 1st of March he was joined by thirty-two men from Gonzales, who increased his force to... | |
| J. M. Morphis - Texas - 1875 - 634 pages
..."Lieutenant- Colonel commanding. " P. 8.—The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves. " T." .On the 1st of March he was joined by thirty-two men from Gonzales, who increased his force to... | |
| Edmund Bostwick Tuttle - Adventure and adventurers - 1878 - 366 pages
...aware of its importance. On the 24th of February he wrote thus : ' When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves.' This omission to provide, remedied so late by accident, must have been more owing to the commander's... | |
| Edmund Bostwick Tuttle - Frontier and pioneer life - 1878 - 288 pages
...aware of its importance. On the 24th of February he wrote thus : ' When the enemy appeared in sight we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found...got into the walls twenty or thirty head of beeves.' This omission to provide, remedied so late by accident, must have been more owing to the commander's... | |
| Homer S. Thrall - Texas - 1883 - 910 pages
...or death! " In a postscript he added: " The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found...ninety bushels, and got into the walls twenty or thirty beeves." On the 3d of March, he wrote again to the Convention at Washington: "I am M:]| here, iu fine... | |
| Hiram H. McLane - Alamo - 1886 - 132 pages
...this I've added, by way of postscript : " The Lord is on our side. "When the enemy appeared in sight, We had not three bushels of corn ; We have since found, in deserted houses Eighty or ninety bushels, And gotten into the walls Twenty or thirty head of beeves." And this I must, with all dispatch, Send off... | |
| Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker - Texas - 1888 - 266 pages
...Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding. " PS — The Lord is on our side. When the enemy appeared in sight, we had not three bushels of corn. We have since found,...in deserted houses, eighty or ninety bushels, and have gotten into the walls, twenty-nine or thirty beeves. T." Succeeding Days of the Siege. — Eloquent,... | |
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