three o’clock
There were so many people on the road he could not find an opportunity to enter for some time . He had been in the city all night . He had watched the movement of the troops in the starlight . As he drank a cup of chocolate , he said : `` It was just three o'clock , Senorita , when the Matamoras battalion was moved forward . General Cos supported it with two thousand men . `` But General Cos was paroled by these same Americans who are now in the Alamo ; and his life was spared on condition that he would not bear arms against them again . '' `` It is but one lie , one infamy more .