Most of its people, Mexican to the core, shared in the triumph of Santa Anna.

The terrible Texans were gone, annihilated, and Santa Anna was irresistible.

The conquest of Texas was easy now.

No, it was achieved already.

They had the dictator's own word for it that the rest was a mere matter of gathering up the fragments.
Some of the graver and more kindly Mexican officers thought of their own losses.