A-\n accident 01· two may be of use to illustrate this siugular mode of pushing an enemy and paving the way to victory. It tnrned out, on one occasion, that a number of the combatants on both sides, found themselves in two adjoining apartments of the same house. The assail- ants soon opened au aperture through the partition wall, which separated them. By means of this open- i11g, considerable free conversation and argument about the causes and prospects of the war, were held between the opposing parties, and some challenges were given, particularly by the Americans to the i\Icxicans, to step forth and show themselves, if no more than a finger. This position was kept on both sides until the next tlay, when the )fexieans thought it advisable to retire from this unpleasant neighborhood. In some instances, the Tcxians sought their enemies by breaking the fiat roofs of the houses, and letting themselves down by thl'it· blankets into the rooms below. On the morning of the fifth, the decisive blow was st l'Uck. Nearly two hundred men were enabled, by such means as above mentioned, to get possession of one whole side of the square, that on the north, from which, about day-break, they opened fire with sw·h deadly aim upon the four corners, at each of which two cannon were placed, as, in about an hour,
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