 MISC: At the very beginning, when General Houston and his men ride  into town, Houston dismounts and enters a building for a meeting  with Colonel Travis. One of Houstons men then asks if the General  will allow his men to rest, as the last two forced marches have  rather taken it out of them. Houston replies that the foot soldiers  may and that the others are to be fed and their horses tended to  before another forced march within the hour. But Houston and his men  are all on horseback. There are no foot soldiers in his troop. After  the meeting, Houston and his large force of men then all gallop off  on horseback at quite a pace. So, if there ever were any foot  soldiers, they would never have been able to catch up with Houston  and his riders.