that the place
"with the cooperation of our Polish officers, soon took on the appearance of a fortress."
Ehrenberg also says that in the action of March 19th, as the enemy came up
"our artillery officers, mainly Poles, and fine, tall men, patiently waited for the time when they could reply ... to advantage,"
and that after the enemy's attempt to break the Texan lines,
"all of our artillerymen except one Pole had fallen." [Bartholomae, pp. 179-182.]
There were four Polanders in Fannin's Command; Debicki, Kornicky, and the brothers Petrussewicz.
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The LOMR notation opposite the name of Lieutenant Basil Lamar is "went on Express to Government after enemy came to Goliad."
By special act of the legislature approved Aug. 27, 1836, he was allowed five months pay as first lieutenant of Bullock's Company, and a bounty certificate for 320 acres of land. [Gammell's Laws of Texas, IV, 710.]
He was not, of course, present with his company when it marched with Ward to Refugio, March 13, 1836, or at any later date.
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