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MINA'S EXPEDITION.
29th at the hacienda of San Juan de los Llanos, near San Felipe. He at once charged, regardless of the sharp firing, and threw them into disorder. Within eight minutes the royalists were in full flight. The rest was but pursuit and slaughter. Over 300 are said to have been stretched along the route, including both commanders, while more than 200 were captured.[1]
MINA'S OPERATIONS.
And here is told the story of a most politic act, which added lustre to the cause of the revolutionists.
- ↑ In Robinson, i. 257-8, the prisoners are placed at 220, the slain at 339, and those who escaped at 150. Two guns and 500 muskets were taken. It is related that the royalists fired silver dollars; and Bustamante confirms the story by saying that one of the gunners could not find the necessary shot at the proper moment, and so threw in a handful of dollars. Cuad. Hist., iv. 377. It is agreed that Col Young and Maj. Maylefer led the victorious charge, yet a commentator in Soc. Mex. Geog., Bol., ép. 2, iii. 105-7, seeks patriotically to replace Young with Moreno. The insurgents crowned the victory every where with loud demonstrations.
infantry fell in on the way, forming nearly 400 in all. Robinson, i. 254. Alaman misinterprets the translation by adding 400 rabble on the way.
