sentences:  On May 21, 1801, a Spanish force of 120 men under the command of Lieutenant Miguel Francisco Múzquiz left Nacogdoches in pursuit of Nolan, whom they encountered entrenched and unwilling to surrender just upstream from where the current Nolan River flows into the larger Brazos (now in Hill County, Texas).Several of Nolan’s men surrendered immediately, and after Nolan was killed, the remainder yielded.Bean opposed surrender, but Múzquiz promised the prisoners would be taken to Natchez and released.