...ilitia remained at home. If a man with the true instincts of leadership had been at this juncture at the head of affairs, he could have confronted Santa Anna at San Antonio, or on the banks of the Colorado , with 3,000 or 4,000 men, defeated him, and carried the Texan arms far enough into Mexico to have settled the question of independence forever. As it was, massacre and wide-spread desolation, from ...