We started once to the relief of the Alamo, but our ammunition wagon broke down and we could not get our cannon across the San Antonio River.

Things don't seem to be going right with us." Ned was silent.

His thoughts turned back to the Alamo.

And so Fannin and his men had started but had never come! Truly "things were going wrong!" But perhaps it was just as well.

The victims would have only been more numerous, and Fannin's men were saved to fight elsewhere for Texas.
He heard a rattle of musketry, and through one of the loopholes he saw that the Mexican cavalry in the wood had opened a distant fire.