“I read something on the plane that said the fight at Molino del Rey was a bitch.”
“It was that, Davis. Fortunately it didn’t last too long. See, the Mexican defenders at one stage fought off an American attack and then they snuck out at night and bayoneted all the wounded. That pissed off the American troops and they decided that there was gonna be no mercy. The next day they overran the mill and slaughtered everybody they could find.”
“So now they’ve gotta get up here and take the castle. How many Mexicans were holding this place?”
“There were about a thousand soldiers under Mexican General Nicolas Bravo, who was one of the good ones in a generally bad bunch, plus some cadets from the military academy. There might have been about two hundred of them. Most were either killed or evacuat
