Text Appearing Before Image: COL. GEORGE WEBB SLAUGHTER. so c: Text Appearing After Image: INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS. nc» in a short time 500 armed men met wilbin two milesof Nacogdoches and sent to Col. Pledras, under aflag of truce, a demand for the prisoners liberation.In reply a company of cavalry came out with acounter demand for the surrender of the wholeparty. Immediate hostilities followed. The Mex-icans were driven hack to town after one or twoineffectual stands, and eventually forced to evacu-ate the fort and seek safety in flight. Quite a num-ber of Mexicans were killed, but only three Ameri-cans, one of whom was G. P. Smith, an uncle ofG. W. Slaughter. At that time the Angelina riverwas swollen with recent rains, its bottom landsflooded and impassable except at one point, someeighteen miles from the fort, where a bridge hadbeen built. Here all the men who were provided■with horses were directed to hasten and stop theretreat of the panic-striken Mexicans, while theremainder of the force followed on, thus bringingthe enemy between two fires and compelli
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