The magazine of American history with notes and queries . gedies which the Place dArmes witnessed in thoseyears when men expiated there their crimes or fell beneath the blow ofpolitical or military wrath, was the execution of five gallant and country-loving Creoles for the offense of having endeavored to array their fellow-citizens against what they deemed the tyranny of the Spanish Governor,Ulloa, whom they expelled from the city. It was on the 26th of October,1769, a date memorable in the history of the Colony, that the soil of thePlace d Armes absorbed the blood of these patriots who had pr
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . gedies which the Place dArmes witnessed in thoseyears when men expiated there their crimes or fell beneath the blow ofpolitical or military wrath, was the execution of five gallant and country-loving Creoles for the offense of having endeavored to array their fellow-citizens against what they deemed the tyranny of the Spanish Governor,Ulloa, whom they expelled from the city. It was on the 26th of October,1769, a date memorable in the history of the Colony, that the soil of thePlace d Armes absorbed the blood of these patriots who had proclaimedthe atrocious doctrines, as OReilly claimed them to be, that Libertyis the mother of commerce and population; without liberty there are butfew virtues. Count don Alexander OReilly was a man of blended Irish and Spanishblood. He was sent by Spain, when Ulloa was compelled to leave the THE HEART OF LOUISIANA 441 city, and it was from the Place dArmes, where everything began andended, that he took his departure, as the executor of her vengeance. He. came to the recalcitrant French city with twenty-four ships containingtwenty-six hundred Spanish soldiers, landing in front of the Place dArmeson the 18th of August. On the side of the square nearest the church, the 44- THE HEART OF LOUISIANA French troops were drawn up, Aubry, the representative of France, attheir head, and surrounding the Square, in the streets, at windows, andon housetops, were the people, looking on in silence, agitated by conflictingfeelings of doubt, fear and suspense. With the new Governor camea glittering following of officers, and after them the shining array ofSpanish infantry and artillery, whose massed ranks filled up the three othersides of the inclosure. The solemnity and importance of the occasion wasemphasized by the discharge of musketry and of cannon, to which the can-non on the ships answered. In response to Aubrys address of welcome,OReilly made a fair reply ; the tigers claw was still conce
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