You have already disarmed my men without my knowledge, are their arms to be returned or not?

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.