The enemy's marching speed was very fast; even with the harassment from the Texas cowboys, by the afternoon of the second day, the Union Jack and the colonial garrison's Star Stripes Alliance Banner were already flying at the foot of the mountain.
They began building their camp in good order. The colonial garrison divisions from Quebec, New Brunswick, Virginia, Lower Canada, and Pennsylvania looked rather relaxed, loosely gathered together, cigarettes in their mouths, puffing away.
These colonial garrisons belonged to the local combat sequence, often fighting native tribes and wild fierce beasts. Many of the officers leading them were veterans who had taken part in suppressing the Great Indian Uprising and the War of the Spanish Succession.
