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Updated: June 8, 2025
It seemed to Ned that the hand of fate itself had resolved to strike down the Texans. He knew that Urrea, one of Santa Anna's ablest and most tenacious generals, would never relax the watch for an instant. In the darkness he could hear the Mexican sentinels calling to one another: "Sentinela Alerte!" The cold damp allayed the thirst of the young recruits, but the crater was the scene of gloom.
This was going on in the trenches, when we heard an ominous cry from the ramparts, repeated two or three times, of, 'Alerte on the walls! This cry was followed by a discharge of cannon and musketry, and this discharge by a vigorous sally, which, after having filled up the trenches, pursued us as far as our grand guard.
The next point is I think I saw Flora go up towards the waterfall a short time since follow, man, follow! don't allow the garrison time to strengthen its purposes of resistance ALERTE A LA MURAILLE! Seek Flora out, and learn her decision as soon as you can and Cupid go with you, while I go to look over belts and cartouch-boxes. Waverley ascended the glen with an anxious and throbbing heart.
The Spaniard was as good as his word; and as soon as we heard, 'Alerte on the walls, we were sure of a sally, that cleared our trenches, destroyed our works, and killed the best of our officers and soldiers.
Objects can no longer be distinguished at the distance of twenty feet. The huge pile of the Presidio, looming against the leaden sky, looks black and gloomy. The sentinel cannot be seen upon the turrets, but at intervals his shrill voice uttering the "Centinela alerte!" tells that he is at his post. His call is answered by the sentinel at the gate below, and then all is silent.
The Spaniard was as good as his word; and as soon as we heard, 'Alerte on the walls, we were sure of a sally, that cleared our trenches, destroyed our works, and killed the best of our officers and soldiers.
I had indeed forgotten that there was any thing in the world beyond this paradise. Alerte led me back immediately into the passage by which I had entered. On one side of it she had two well- arranged rooms. In that in which she lived she set before me oranges, figs, peaches, and grapes; and I enjoyed with great gusto both the fruits of foreign lands and those of our own not yet in season.
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