The great reputation of Davy Crockett, universal in the southwest, was justified fully.

The crew of the gun had been annihilated in less than a minute.
For a while there was silence.

Then the Mexicans, protected by the earthwork that they had thrown up, drew the battery back a hundred yards.

Even in the farther batteries the men were very careful about exposing themselves.

The Texans, seeing no sure target, held their fire.
The Mexicans opened a new cannonade and for another half hour the roar of the great guns drowned all other sounds.