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SIEGE OF CUAUTLA.
companying plan will enable the reader to recognize the relative positions of the opposing forces.
Cuautla And Vicinity.
Positions of besiegers:
1 Headquarters and camp of Calleja on the estate of Buena vista.
2 Batteries and intrenchments.
3 Positions occupied by Llano's troops.
4 Redoubts.
5 Battery of Juchitengo.
6 Redoubt of the Calvario.
Positions of besieged:
7 Plaza of San Diego.
8 Plaza of Santo Domingo.
9 Premises of hacienda of Buenavista.
10 Redoubt at spring of Juchitengo.
11 Plantations and redoubt of the Platanar.
12 Highway to Mexico.
Morelos' force at this time amounted to 3,300 men, of whom 1,000 were infantry and the remainder cavalry,[1] and 100 Indians collected from the neighboring
- ↑ The cavalrymen also served on foot during the siege, their horses being pastured outside the town; 300 of them had arrived from Huétamo under Cano and Francisco Ayala. Morelos, Declar., 24. Ayala had joined Morelos at Chilapa under peculiar circumstances. He was a lieutenant of the acordada in the valle de las Amilpas, and resided at the hacienda de Mapaxtlan, near Cuautla. Being favorably disposed toward the revolution, he had declined to enroll himself in the troops levied by Garcilaso, the subdelegado of Cuautla, and had thereby incurred suspicion. Some time afterward an insurgent was killed in that neighborhood, and on his body was found a letter from Ignacio Ayala, who had been appointed intendente by Morelos of the new province of Tecpan. The comandante Moreno, believing that Francisco
