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headed them the next day before they crossed the stream. A consulta-
tion was held among the Americans to know whether they should give
the enemy battle? The foe was 400 strong, the other party 20 only; One
of this little band concluded that the inequality in numbers was so
great as to make it the hight of folly &e madness to engage in open
battle, 8c declined the conflict; the others joined by the gentleman at
whose house they were consulting only about ioo yds from [the]
river,72 they marched down to the banks & found on the other side the
enemy ready for their reception. The enemy demanded what they
wanted? they replied that they were the advance guard of the Brasos
army. The stream is very narrow. it was almost fighting breast to
breast; a few fierce fires ensued, and the army of 20o had to retreat, hav-
ing however none of its men either killed or wounded, whilst their own
fires on the enemy counted pretty well 2 dead 8c several wounded. The
spaniards now crossed the river and marched toward the house where
the other party had retreated. Unable to contend in open conflict,
stratigem was resorted to, the Americans kept such incessant moving
about pres[en]ting themselves at every crack 8c corner of the dwelling
& the out house as to induce the belief that the forces were much larger
than had been exhibited on the river. They had indeed been rein-
forced amounting in all to 60. Perceiving as they (the Enemy) thought
that every crack in the house was a port hole, the Spanish forces were
affraid to advance, and finally hoisted a white flag for parley & or ne-
gociation. The propri[e]tor of the premises at the signal sent his son, a
lad of 18, to know what they designed or desired; the young man told
them that the americans were flowing rapidly, S& that 8oo were in an
hour's march. This threw them into panic; the Americans, then pro-
posed that if they would surrender their arms 8c ammunition, they
might proceed unmolested on their way thro' the country; if not, the
forces present would battle with them until the advancing army should
arrive. The proposition was assented to; the munitions of war was
yielded & themselves surrendered as prisoners; the expected reinforce-
ment never made its appearance, and the Spaniards after learning
Anna. Thus the gathering outside Nacogdoches of two to three hundred men from these
municipalities on the morning of August 2, and their subsequent clash with Piedras's
force of a hundred Mexicans, did not come about by chance. John Henry Brown, History
of Texas, From 1685 to 1892 (2 vols.; St. Louis, 1893), I, 190-191; Gambrell, Anson Jones,
3o-33; Yoakum, History of Texas, I, 297-298.
72The house was Joseph Durst's, although Crocket mistakenly reported it as John311
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