 | Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 426 pages
...his true situation : he complied with my request, and reported his pulse to be perfectly healthful in its vibrations ; when I again intimated to the...to the Captain's gig-boat, into which we descended and rowed for the shore. On reaching the mouth of the river, Santa Anna took fresh alarm at a body... | |
 | Henry Stuart Foote - Mexico - 1841 - 416 pages
...complied with my request, and reported his pulse to be perfectly healthful in its vibrations ; when T again intimated to the prisoner the necessity of going...to the Captain's gig-boat, into which we descended and rowed for the shore. On reaching the mouth of the river, Santa Anna took fresh alarm at a body... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Texas - 1846 - 216 pages
...respiration even of a Mexican ! All other means failing, General Green ordered him to be put in irons. " When the irons were brought within his view, the prisoner...his hat, and stated his readiness to accompany us " (p. 343) . And how else would you have a defenceless prisoner act, with a score of bayonets or bowie-knives... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Statesmen - 1855 - 428 pages
...commander ordered him to be put in irons. " When the irons were brought within his view, the prisoner jumped up, adjusted his collar, put on his hat, and stated his readiness to accompany us." (P. 343). And hoW else could a defenceless prisoner act, with a score of bayonets or bowie-knives at... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - San Jacinto, Battle of, Tex., 1836 - 1860 - 440 pages
...commander ordered him to be put in irons. " When the irons were brought within his view, the prisoner jumped up, adjusted his collar, put on his hat, and stated his readiness to accompany us." (P. 343). And how else could a defenceless prisoner act, with a score of bayonets or bowie-knives at... | |
 | Charles Edwards Lester - Texas - 1883 - 256 pages
...commander ordered him to be put in irons. "When the irons were brought within his view, the prisoner jumped up, adjusted his collar, put on his hat, and stated his readiness to accompany us." (P. 343.) And how else could a defenseless prisoner act, with a score of bayonets or bowie-knives nt... | |
 | William Carey Crane - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 700 pages
...ordered him to be put in irons. "When the irons were brought within his view, the prisonerimmediately jumped up, adjusted his collar, put on his hat, and stated his readiness to accompany us." Gen. Green acted in obedience to popular impulses, and the world sympathized with the universal execration... | |
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He begged twenty minutes' longer respite ; upon which, I announced to the Captain that it would be necessary to send forward his master-of-arms, and have him ironed without delay. When the irons were brought within his view, the prisoner immediately jumped... 