Jan 14 1836 to Mar 5 1836 - PTR, Vol. 4

Stil as mice; wen all was fast a Sleep and as Slil as death save that of the trampoling of our feet. the town is a bout 2 milds in Lcnth. we marched on ti! we Came down with in Sight of the Custom how; and· fort which we Could disurn by the Lights wen we ware haild by the Cenlancl in Spanish (Kingveve), which is the law their, 3 times wen of went the Canon and kild two of our men. we was in open order So we faird bettor. we Rushed on the Cannon look it kild 3 Spannards. they then fierd 2 more Canons-and then the actions Commenced on boath Sides with l\1uskettory. We Shot all the men from the guns. they then Retreted in the fort and Commenced fiering down 011 us in the Street. the action Lasted about 2 houres wen we found our amanetion Runing Short. We Seasecl firing on boath Sides for they ware as glad as we ware. aflor Consulting with our Selves we Conclude to Retrct before dalight for feare all the Solgers would h1rn out and cul us of. We got all the wondcd that was able to walk and about 5 in the morning we made the woods. Our Retreet was Spedey. Lcving the deade in the Streets with the wunded that could not go with us on our Retreet. a number made an attempt to Cros the River and go down on the other Side which was but a Short distance to whare we Started from. we made our way on to the fort by the Same way we Came as fast as we Could with our wonded and the Situa- tion we ware in. about 12 oclock in the day we arrived al the fort whare we Started from with But the Existanse of Life-in fact they did not all get in for two days wen the Role was .Cauld we found out of 150 men we had Lost 40 men. the forth day a Spannard Left the town and Stated that there ware 28 men in prisen Six murdcd in the wood by the Spannards. So we Lost 6 men kild in the action. those ho [who] was taken prisoners has been Since Shot or murclred in a most Shamful manner. I must Cul my narative Short. We Remaind at the fort about l O days precured Som provishen from vesels trading 011 that Coast im- ploycd a Clwner Cauld the hasan to Bring us to the mout of the brases River in Texes. hour other Schuner was intiarley Lost. we got som Lit provishcn from on board of her. We put to See on the 25 of November. We Cacolatc<l to make the River in 3 clays. We whare hlowcn to Sec and Reached it in 9 days. 5 days we Lived on ½ pint of Rise. we Landed Safe in Texis. We Rcmaind thar a few days and then Commenced our march lo whare we ar a distance of death for wallor and hunger with fatig. we cntorcd the town as

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