But the knowledge that Cos was present, raised enthusiasm to the highest pitch.

Our troops remembered his parole at the Alamo, and the shameful manner in which he had broken it; and there was not a man who did not long to kill him for it.
"About three o'clock in the afternoon, Houston ordered the attack.

The seven hundred Americans were divided into three bodies.

I saw Houston in the very centre of the line, and I have a confused memory of Milard and Lamar, Burleson and Sherman and Wharton, in front of their divisions." "Were the Mexicans expecting the attack, father ?" "They were in perfect order, Antonia; and when Sherman shouted the battle-cry: 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO! GOLIAD AND THE ALAMO!' it was taken up by the whole seven hundred, and such a shout of vengeance mortal ears never heard before.

The air was full of it, and it appeared to be echoed and repeated by innumerable voices.
"With this shout on our lips, we advanced to within sixty paces of the Mexican lines, and then a storm of bullets went flying over our heads.
One ball, however, shattered Houston's ankle, and another struck his horse in the breast.