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HISTORY OF TEXAS.
march, during which he lost six of liis nieni, tw!o i:erie,od with
the cold and rain, he arrived at San Patricio oil thl 2 Tth of
February, at three o'clock in thle morninl.
The army raised by Santa Annill w. not Iroc lit,'it to(ethloer
without difficulty. The number of' mules a,d 1 ho s.e for I urposes
of transport, and the gre7t amnILt of baaaoe, were extraordinary.
In addition to this, a great inibl cr o-f wo men'
followed the canmp; btut for whlat 'purp,ose thil.'y wenr'1 permitted,
unless to take care of the 1ltnlder, we a'h' ot infoliLt.
Every means was resorted to in order to S-llly tlt,he: arly.
According to a letter of ajor 5Morri.s, an ivntory of' eac(
person's property was taken, iupon whic iel on J'r c,'. was demanded
every twenty days a i
The next in co00i11mmand to Saiitt A,nna (wta s (":enoral Yien:te
Filisola, by birth an Italian, but fo.r many ye'rs a citi' n of
fexico ; and, in addition, were Gen,rals Sosa. , Ca: aJls:,
Andrade , o1 and Cos, all of whom1 wer, o'ilored t o ticentrate
with their icommantds befire mr't Antoio. At oon , on
the 23d of February, the invading at't111y ri eachill t lt. heigl-ht
north of the Alazan-the place where, twenty-three ea's' b.fore,
the republicans under Gutierres t.ad i gained a l sigal vi ctory
over the adherents of Spain.
To return to the Texans, and the steps le they w',n t i, to
resist this well-appointed army. At the I}.iniuig of tt: war
iln 1835, they had shiow1 n renarkable zeal and( aclivity in piroviding
for their defence; but, having driven t: hen, : literlv
out of Texas, they returned to their homes and jtrivate a ftairs.
The news of the freslh invasion had spread lover tle cttry;
the officers of the army, the governor, and tlie couicil, tI a re*
Diario Militar dl G6eneral eJoae rrea, dla:te la .Primera (;mtpana de
Tejas. Durango: 1838.
t Kennedy, vol. ii., p. 179.
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Yoakum, H. (Henderson K.), 1810-1856. History of Texas: From Its First Settlement in 1685 to Its Annexation to the United States in 1846, Volume 2, book, 1855; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2386/m1/68/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.