The Texian prisoners reach Saltillo, Coahuila, to…

The Texian prisoners reach Saltillo, Coahuila, to learn that an outraged Santa Anna had ordered all the escapees to be executed, but General and Governor Francisco Mexía of the state of Coahuila had refused to follow the order.

The new commander, Colonel Domingo Huerta, moves the prisoners to El Rancho Salado.

By this time, diplomatic efforts on behalf of Texas by the foreign ministers of the United States and Great Britain have led Santa Anna to compromise: he says one in ten of the prisoners will be killed.

Officers and enlisted men, in alphabetical order, are blindfolded and ordered to draw beans.

The seventeen men who draw black beans are allowed to write letters home before being executed by firing squad on March 25, 1843.