such directions to other vessels as you may think prudent an<l necessary and as it is likely I shall shortly receive other supplies for the army, it is important that you freely comnmnicalc your expected movements, that I may govern shipment accordingly. I am very respectfully your obt sevt R.R. Royall l have just recd. lcllcrs from Durainger and Shepherd having come across the peninsular the information is that Santa Ana had left Sallilio for the Rio Grande with 7000 men that supplies had been sent for lo New Orleans for his troops and that they ralied under a white flag, with Black Cross, l have sent about 20 hhls flour around to Dimitts by the Boal that carries this letter. It is sci that Doct Archer will be here in a few days, but I know it must be false as I learn officially he is gone to Washington City. I have seen Col Fannins Letter to the Gov in hand Bills and will endeavour lo keep supplies at Coxes point. It will be necessary lo send a quarter mastery to superintend the forwarding of it from Coxes a vessel cant gel near Dimil1s and will nol be till she can be discharged. AL so great a distance also l am informed by my agent that there is no sccurelly on the west Bank of the Bay from neither lenemyl or thieves the ware house at Coxes point is full , very f11Ll, and as such I shall have to continue lo receive here untill it is taken away.
Yours R.R. Royall
19th Feb 1836
[2122] [SANTA ANNA to the AR.MY]
The aeneral-in-chief Lo the army of operations under his command. b . Companions in arrns!-Our most sacred duties have conducted us to these plains, and urged us forward to combat with the mob of u1wrateful adventurers, on whom our authorities have b incautiously lavished favors, which they have failed to bestow on Mexicans. They have appropriated to themselves our territories, and have raised the standard of rebellion in order that this fertile and expanded department may be detached from our republic-persuading themselves that our unfortunak dissensions have incapacitated us for defence of our native land. Wretches! they will soon sec their folly. Soldiers-Your comrades have been treacherously
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