A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . unded. It is a remarkable fact that this desperate undertaking was accom- Losses in theplished by a volunteer force of three hundred men under a sub- ^°^eordinate officer, while the commanding general and main bodyof the army remained in camp. About the time the siege of Bexar began, a small conflict Lipantitianoccurred at Lipantitian, near San Patricio, on the Nueces. Thiswas on November 4, Captain Westover commanding the Mexicans were defeated and retired from the country. The campaign of 1835 had ended, and the r
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . unded. It is a remarkable fact that this desperate undertaking was accom- Losses in theplished by a volunteer force of three hundred men under a sub- ^°^eordinate officer, while the commanding general and main bodyof the army remained in camp. About the time the siege of Bexar began, a small conflict Lipantitianoccurred at Lipantitian, near San Patricio, on the Nueces. Thiswas on November 4, Captain Westover commanding the Mexicans were defeated and retired from the country. The campaign of 1835 had ended, and the results were of Results of theincalculable value to Texas. Had the capture of Bexar been ^^^p^S °^postponed, as General Houston advised in November, until thefollowing March, the Mexicans would have overrun the wholecountry west of the Brazos before money, arms, or troops couldhave been collected ; before a government could be put in oper-ation ; before a single volunteer could come from the UnitedStates ; before the colonists could have organized any but the 13. William C. Cooke. November 4,1835 194 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. 18^12 IliRioD HI. most disordeilv and feeble resistance. As it was, not a Mexican„ ^^ soldier was in Texas at the close of December; Bexar, Goliad, Revolution _ and Gonzales were held by Texan troops ; the provisional gov-ernment had been organized, and its agents were in the United• ?^o^ States enlisting substantial aid and generous sympathy every- where ; \olunteers were coming from all the colonies and fromthe patriotic towns and cities of distant States, while practicalsteps were being taken to equip an army and navy capable ofcoping with the Mexican invasion, which it was certain wouldsoon attempt the subjugation of Texas. None of these thingscould have been accomplished but for the patriots of Goliadand Gonzales, and the heroes of Lipantitlan and Bexar, in thecampaign of 1835. QUESTIONS. What were Santa Annas motives for detaining Austin as a
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