. Young folks' history of Mexico. no command could Scott soon saw that a direct approach w^ouldexpose his army to a fatal cannonade, and so contrived toflank the battery, while demonstrations were made in frontand on either side. The division of General Twiggsstormed and carried the centre of Cerro Gordo, while thebrigades of Shields and Riley charged furiously upon themain fort and batteries, causing the Mexicans to fly inutter rout, and turned upon them the guns of their ownfortifications. The loss of the enemy was not less than a thousand,while ours was something over four hun
. Young folks' history of Mexico. no command could Scott soon saw that a direct approach w^ouldexpose his army to a fatal cannonade, and so contrived toflank the battery, while demonstrations were made in frontand on either side. The division of General Twiggsstormed and carried the centre of Cerro Gordo, while thebrigades of Shields and Riley charged furiously upon themain fort and batteries, causing the Mexicans to fly inutter rout, and turned upon them the guns of their ownfortifications. The loss of the enemy was not less than a thousand,while ours was something over four hundred. Three thou-sand prisoners, including two hundred and eighty officersand five generals, fell into our hands, besides five thousandstand of arms and forty-three pieces of artillery. Thewhole American force amounted to eight thousand fivehundred. General Santa Anna escaped with great diffi-culty, leaving his wooden leg on the field in the hurry andconfusion of his departure. Our forces immediately pushed on and occupied Jalapa. The Ainericari Army in the Valley. 44^ and the Castle of Perote, where they captured a largeamount of arms and artillery. Pursuing their march overthe great plateau a portion of the army under GeneralWorth captured, on the 22d of May, the large andimportant city of Puebla, a city containing, to-day, 70,000inhabitants, and celebrated for the number of its churches,convents, and cotton mills. Santa Anna, the irrepressible, again gathered a smallarmy and opposed the march of Worth, but was obligedto retire with loss. The Congress and the politicianspassed valuable time in squabbles amongst themselves,instead of rallying the people as a unit to repel theadvancing enemy. But the courage of the nation was notbroken, and, unfortunate as he had been, the people stilllooked to Santa Anna to yet lead them to victory. Whilethey were passing their time in dissensions. General Scotthad gradually quartered all his forces in Puebla, whencehe sent fruitless missions
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