Journal of a Residence And Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826 ...
Journal of a Residence And Tour in the Republic of Mexico in the Year 1826 ...
George Francis Lyon
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We slept under a mimosa near the fires of our muleteers, with whom on the morning of the 28th we had much trouble, as their mules were tired and exhausted, and none others could be hired to supply their places. In three leagues over a stony road we reached the Rancho del Tejou, and passed on to a plain on which the number of whirlwinds was quite ex- traordinary. We had repeatedly seen a few of them, but on this day they appeared to have as- sumed a new form, raising the dust to a height of Digi...tized by Google 158 PEOTILLAS. two or three hundred feet in straight columns which preserved their perpendicularity and moved but slowly over the plain, while many continued to turn rapidly on their axes without any percepti- ble prc^essive motion^ After riding three leagues further we reached the plain of Peotillas, where the younger Mina, having but 1 72 men, including himself and staff, so gallantly defeated Armiiian with a force of 1700 disciplined troops *. The Spaniards were nearly all destroy- ed, and we visited the long grave in which many of them were buried, beneath a rude cross of wood, whereon was engraved Vn Padre N'^ y un Abe Maria Gloriado — y un Sudario For Yntinsion de las Ani* mas (( estan Sepultadas en este Campo, The field of battle was covered with low bushes, * *' On the body of a lieutenant-colonel was found the order of the day, which showed that the force actually en- gaged, was six hundred and eighty infantry of the European regiments of Estremadura and America, and eleven hundred of the Rio Verde and Sierra Gorda cavalry, and tliat the rear guard consisted of three hundred men." Digitized by Google PEOTILLAS.
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