. History of the war between the United States and Mexico : from the commencement of hostilities to the ratification of the treaty of peace . to Puebla, seventy-eight miles be-yond Perote, and about ninety miles from Mexico, withhis division, followed by the brigade under GeneralQuitman. The Mexican army which General Scott had en-countered on the heights of Cerro Gordo, was almosttotally dispersed. Santa Anna escaped to the vicinityof Puebla, with a few followers, and Ampudia, at the?head of 3,000 cavalry, in a most disastrous plight^passed through Perote, on his way to the interior. Thenfant
. History of the war between the United States and Mexico : from the commencement of hostilities to the ratification of the treaty of peace . to Puebla, seventy-eight miles be-yond Perote, and about ninety miles from Mexico, withhis division, followed by the brigade under GeneralQuitman. The Mexican army which General Scott had en-countered on the heights of Cerro Gordo, was almosttotally dispersed. Santa Anna escaped to the vicinityof Puebla, with a few followers, and Ampudia, at the?head of 3,000 cavalry, in a most disastrous plight^passed through Perote, on his way to the interior. Thenfantry were utterly disorganized, and fled before theirpursuers in small J^odies,—some throwing away theirarms, and others selling them in the towns throughwhich they passed, for two or three reals. Findingthat the American army did not advance immediately ? A portion of the volunteer regiments called out in the fall of 1816,and winter of 1847, were enlisted to serve twelve months, or during thecontinuance of the war. T[iis will account for their remaining in ser-vice after the expiration of the year, as, it will be seen, was the THS GUERILLEROS. 289 beyond Perote, the Mexican general-in-chief employedhimself for several days, towards the latter part ofApril and the beginning of May, in the neighborhoodof Orizaba, in collecting and organizing a new force,whose assistance had been invoked by his early as the 8th of April, it was proposed to adoptthe guerilla system, at a meeting of the principal citi-zens of Mexico, and orders were issued, and measurestaken by the government to carry the suggestion intoeffect. Among the most efficient of their agents andcoadjutors was a padre, by the name of Jarauta, orig-inally an Aragonese curate, who had been compelledto fly from Spain, on account of his participation inthe cruelties and barbarities perpetrated by the gueriZ-leros who fought under Cabrera.* There is something noble in the aspect presented bya people flying
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