The Texans, or those who were called the Texans, shot straight and together so fast that no Mexican column could withstand their hail of bullets.
A second time the Mexicans charged, and a second time they were driven back in the same manner.

Exultation spread among the recruits standing in the hollow, but they were still surrounded.

The Mexicans merely drew out of range and waited.

Then they attacked a third time, and, from all sides, charging very close, infantry and cavalry.

The men in the hollow were well supplied with rifles, and their square fairly blazed.