Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ..: ., ..; .. .:: .M: i. 'i.i'MJ.i CHAPTER X. . .in .. .....: ..., .1 Mina advances against Guanaxuato?Description of that city?He attacks it?Failure?He proceeds with an escort to the rancho del Fenadito?Movements of Orrantia?. Mina made prisoner?Brutal conduct of Orrantia towards him?Death of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ..: ., ..; .. .:: .M: i. 'i.i'MJ.i CHAPTER X. . .in .. .....: ..., .1 Mina advances against Guanaxuato?Description of that city?He attacks it?Failure?He proceeds with an escort to the rancho del Fenadito?Movements of Orrantia?. Mina made prisoner?Brutal conduct of Orrantia towards him?Death of Mina?Reflections?State of Society in Mexico?Remarks on the present state of the royal forces, and the facility with which the country could be invaded, and its emancipation accomplished. At the hacienda of La Caxa, Mina assembled about eleven hundred troops, with which he advanced to the hacienda of Burras. In the night of the 23d, avoiding the high roads, and having made a circuit through the cultivated grounds, he passed along the heights immediately over the city of Guanaxuato, and gained, by day-light, an unfrequented spot called La Mina de la Luz, in the mountains, about four leagues therefrom. He halted there during the day, awaiting the arrival of some reenforce- ments of infantry and cavalry despatched by Don Encarnacion Ortiz. They joined him in the afternoon; and his force, thus augmented, amounted to nearly fourteen hundred men, of whom ninety only were infantry. Before relating the disastrous attack on the city of Guanaxuato, it will be proper to present the reader with a brief view of this celebrated town, because, in point of wealth and natural advantages, it holds the next rank in importance to the capital of New Spain; and indeed, as respects its physical resources, is equal, if not superior, to any city in Spanish America. These circumstances alone were such as to render its capture an enterprise worthy of the gallant Mina, and of the greatest importance to the revolutionary cause. Guanaxuato, the capital of the intendancy of that name, is situated amid.