..."Boys, they are going to kill us---die with your faces to them, like men!"...two other young men, flourishing their caps over their heads, shouted at the top of their voices: "Hurra for Texas!" Can Texas cease to cherish the memory of those, whose dying words gave a pledge of their devotion to her cause?

--Capt. Jack Shackelford, Survivor of the Massacre

...There was a general cry which pervaded the ranks: 'Remember the Alamo! Remember La Bahía!' These words electrified us all.

--Thomas J. Rusk, Secretary of War referring to the
defeat of the Mexican Centralista Forces at San Jacinto

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