. History of Mexico; her civil wars, and colonial and revolutionary annals; from the period of the Spanish conquest, 1520, to the present time, 1847: . er of the besieged weredestroyed. The Spanish, French, and English Consuls, ad-dressed a communication to the American leader, request-ing him to allow the women and children to retire fromthe terrible scene. General Scott, however, refused, as theenemy had abundant time, before he landed, to remove hisfamilies and non-combatants, and it was his duty to takethe place at all risks. On the 25th, fom- 24-pounders andtwo 8-inch howitzers were added
. History of Mexico; her civil wars, and colonial and revolutionary annals; from the period of the Spanish conquest, 1520, to the present time, 1847: . er of the besieged weredestroyed. The Spanish, French, and English Consuls, ad-dressed a communication to the American leader, request-ing him to allow the women and children to retire fromthe terrible scene. General Scott, however, refused, as theenemy had abundant time, before he landed, to remove hisfamilies and non-combatants, and it was his duty to takethe place at all risks. On the 25th, fom- 24-pounders andtwo 8-inch howitzers were added to the batteries, which,united with the guns which had been landed from theships, worked dreadful havoc; several bastions were en-tirely demolished, and great breaches were made in thewalls. The inhabitants and soldiery became terrified withthe awful desolation which the hostile army had created,in the once fair city, and urged General Morales to sur-render ; he refused to listen to them, asserting his deter-mination to defend the town as long as one stone stoodupon another. The soldiery became mutinous, refused to * See Appendix, XXIV. f PLAN OF THE SIEGE OF VERA CRUZ, BY THE AMERICANS. AB, Right and left extremes of line of FF, Spitfire and Vixen. boats in landing. G, Position of the John Adams. CCCCC, Sand Hills upon which the H,I,K,L, Foreign men-of-war. troops formed as they landed. M,N, Northern and Southern extremesD, Mexican Battery, of one gun, taken of the Anchorage of the Fleet. by the Americans. O, British Mail , Position of the Gun-boats. 29f SURRENDER OF VERA CRUZ. 467 obey the Governor, and elected General Landero in hisplace; that officer being in favor of a surrender. On the morning of the 26th of March, the Mexicanleader made overtures for a capitulation ; although a ter-rible storm was raging at the time, the commissioners, con-sisting of General Worth, Colonel Totten and GeneralPillow, on the American side, and the Senors Villaneuva,Herre
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