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for some three hours, but with little effect. The Texan schooner Invincible
took and sent into port as a prize the Mexican schooner Obispo, of eighty
tons; and the Brutus captured and sent in the schooner Telegraph. The
Texans also made repeated landings along the coast, and burnt eight or nine
towns. This, tlhough sufficiently alnnoying to the enemy, and in accordance
with their mode of warfare, has not been considered, in modern times, as
the most humane way of conducting a war. Another vessel, the Eliza
Bussel, of one hundred and eighty tons, belonging to English subjects,
which was taken by the Invincible off the Alicranes and brought into Galveston,
not being freighted with a contraband cargo, was afterwards properly
restored, with damages, by the Republic.'
Page 216, volume 2, the same historian says:
"Colonel John Es W]harton, desirous of making an effort to release his
brother from the prison of Mattamoras, obtained permission and a flag, and
proceeded with thirty Mexican prisoners to that town to make an exchange,
but on landing he was made a prisoner and confinedin a dungeon. After an
imprisonment of six days he made his escape and returned to Texas. In
the meantime his brother, William H. Wharton, through the aid of the wellknown
Captain Thompson of the lexican navy, also escaped and reached
home. It was intended that Thompson should desert the enemy's service
and leave with him; but Thompson's departure was precipitated by some
information given to the Mexican authorities, and he arrived in Texas before
either of the WVhartons. This barbarous conduct on the part of the enemy
induced the President of Texas to readmit the granting of letters of marque
and reprisal against them, which he had suspended on his entrance into
office.
4 On the 25th of August, the Brutts and the Invincible arrived off the
bar at Galveston, havillg in tow a Mexican armed schooner, which they had
captured near the banks of Campeachy. On the same eveningl the Brutts
and the prize entered the harbor, but the Invincible could not get in. On
the following morninig the latter was attacked by two of the eiemny's armed
brigs. The Brutus, in attempting to go out to her aid, ran aground; so the
In,incible was obliged to continue the unequal contest alone during the day;
towards evening she attempted a retreat, but struck on the breakers near
the south-east channel. The crew landed in safety, but during the night
the vessel went to pieces. The Invincible was a faivorite craft in the Texan
navy, and her loss much regretted."'
The last remaining vessel of the old navy, the Brutus,
was lost during the equinoctial gale of 1867, in the harbor
of Galveston; at which time fourteen or fifteen vessels then
in port were destroyed or seriously injured, and nearly the
entire city flooded by the water of the bay in its exit before
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Thrall, Homer S., 1819-1894. A Pictorial History of Texas, From the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1879., book, 1879; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5828/m1/301/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .