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Updated: May 11, 2025
There is a saying in Honduras, which has been justified by countless revolutions, and which dates back to the days of Morazan the Liberator, that "He who takes Pecachua sleeps in the Palace." Garcia's plan was for two days to bombard the city, and if, in that time, Alvarez had not surrendered, to attack El Pecachua by night.
He said that the air was filled with plots and counter-plots, and that treachery stalked abroad. He had been unsuccessful in trying to persuade the president to relieve Heinze of his command on Pecachua. He wanted Von Ritter or myself put in his place. "It is the key to the position," Aiken said, "and if Heinze should sell us out, we would have to run for our lives.
McGraw did not understand Spanish, and looked at me appealingly, and I retorted, "We've altered that, sir. The man who sleeps in the palace will take Pecachua tonight." And McGraw added: "Yes, and he won't take it with thirty pieces of silver, either." I started away, beckoning to McGraw, but, as we moved, Mr. Fiske pushed his pony forward. "Can you give me a pass, sir?" he asked.
From its green crest a puff of smoke was swelling into a white cloud, the cloud was split with a flash of flame, and the dull echo of the report drifted toward us on the hot, motionless air. At the same instant our flag on the crest of Pecachua, the flag with the five-pointed, blood-red star, came twitching down; and a shell screeched and broke above us.
As usual, the work was so divided that the more dangerous and difficult part of it fell to the Foreign Legion, for in his plan Garcia so ordered it that Laguerre should storm Pecachua, while he advanced from the plain and attacked the city at the stone bridge.
That morning when the sun rose gloriously, as from a bath, all pink and shining and dripping with radiance, and the church bells began to clang for early mass, and the bugles at the barracks sounded the jaunty call of the reveille, two puffs of white smoke rose from thecrest of El Pecachua and drifted lazily away.
I also remembered Heinze and the artillerymen who were protecting us on the heights of Pecachua, and sent them a moderate amount of rum, and an immoderate amount of canned goods and cigars.
He governed all Nicaragua with two hundred white men, and never before or since have the pueblo known such peace and justice and prosperity as Walker gave them." Webster threw himself across the table and pointed his hand at Laguerre. "And you, General Laguerre!" he cried, "and you? Do you see your duty? You say it calls you to-night to El Pecachua.
"Are you ready to follow me now, to-night not to the coast" he shouted "but to the Capital to the top of Pecachua?" Old man Webster jumped in front of us, and shot his arm into the air as though it held a standard. "We'll follow you to hell and back again," he cried. I would not have believed that so few men could have made so much noise. We yelled and cheered so wildly that we woke the camp.
At the same instant a shell sang over the roofs of Tegucigalpa, howling jeeringly, and smashed into the pots and pans of the President's kitchen; another, falling two miles farther to the right, burst through the white tent of General Garcia, and the people in the streets, as they crossed themselves in fear, knew that El Pecachua had again been taken, and that that night a new President would sleep in the Palace.
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