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Updated: June 18, 2025
Early in the morning while in the timber by the river they had heard the sound of heavy firing near Goliad, which continued for some time, but they had not been able to fathom its meaning. They concluded finally that a portion of Fannin's men must have been still holding out in some old building of Goliad, and that this was the last stand.
And pray, Captain Ortiz, how will the Americans oppose these magnificent soldiers, full of piety and patriotism?" "They have the Alamo, and one hundred and eighty-three men in it." "And four thousand men against them?" "Si. May the Virgin de los Remedios be their help! An urgent appeal for assistance was sent to Fanning at Goliad. Senor Navarre, took it on a horse fleet as the wind.
Those hurt worst were sustained by their comrades, and, thus, they marched into the Mexican camp, where they expected food and water, but General Urrea directed them to walk on to Goliad. Fainting from hunger and thirst, they took up their march again.
Only by a concentration of our forces can we hope to achieve any thing; and if Goliad is besieged, it will be impossible for me to succour it, or to stake the fate of the republic upon a battle in the prairie, where the ground is so unfavourable to our troops. Once more, therefore, Colonel Fanning in rear of the Guadalupe!"
He obeyed the orders of the general literally. He soon left San Antonio far behind, and went on hour after hour, straight toward Goliad. Now and then he felt the inside of his tunic where the letter lay, but it was always safe.
He told of Crockett and Bowie and Travis and of the final assault. The Panther drew a deep breath, when he finished that part of the story. "They were certainly great men in the Alamo, them fellers," he said, "and when my time comes to die I believe I'd rather die that way than any other." Ned did not linger long over the tale of Goliad. He could not yet bear the detailed repetition.
Colonel, if we desert Goliad, and sound a retreat, we cannot escape. The force of the enemy is too powerful, their movements too rapid, to allow us to retire to a place of safety without a desperate encounter. Is it not better policy to remain here, and meet the shock?" "If we fight at all it must be at fearful odds; four hundred to six thousand!
At eight miles from Goliad begins an extensive and treeless prairie, known as the Nine-mile Prairie; and across this, towards three in the afternoon, we had advanced about four or five miles.
Oh, Crocket! Bowie! can I do better than follow thy example, and give my life in this true cause?" An untimely death the separation and misery of his darling family, weighed not an atom! "Patria infelici fidelis!" was ever his motto, and unfaltering was his own step. There came a messenger from headquarters "Abandon Goliad, and retreat!" "Colonel, you will not sound a retreat?" and Dr.
Colonel Grant and three men those who brought the news to Goliad had reached the outskirt of the mêlée, and might at once have taken to flight; but Grant perceived some others of his men still fighting heroically amongst the mass of Mexicans, and once more he charged in to rescue them. Every thing gave way before him, his broadsword whistled around him, and man after man fell beneath its stroke.
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