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own supply became exhausted.[1] With criminal selfishness he refused to others the success in which he could not share. The insurgents pursued their way unmolested to Acuicho, while Trujillo, bewildered with astonishment, in the exuberance of his joy, was so far forgetful of himself as to liberate more than 300 prisoners from the jails and dungeons of the city.[2]
- ↑ 'No quiso dar á los comandantes Anaya y otros ni un cartucho de mas de treinta cargas que salvó cuando fué derrotado: quo se mantuvo espectador . . .por no contribuir á la gloria de las columnas. . .que tuvierón mejor direccion, ó mejor suerte que la de Muñiz.' Bustamante, Cuad. Hist., i. 286.
- ↑ The particulars of the operations against Valladolid have been derived from Trujillo's and other officers' reports published as quoted in the official gazette of Mexico, and from Bustamante. Other authors, as Mora, Mex. y sus Rev., iv. 235-9; Alaman, Hist. Mej. y ii. 300-8; Torrente, Rev. Hist. Am., i. 242-3; and Negrete, Mex. Sig. XIX., iv. 114-25, 151-2, 155-6, 159-75, supply no additional information, although in minor details some discrepancies are observable in their several narrations.
