ingly, General Rangel of the artillery[1] entered the palace with some of the seduced troops, and seized the president and three of his ministers. Fortunately Herrera had, in anticipation of an outbreak, taken pre cautions; and warned by the war minister who had eluded the rebels, Uraga, the colonel in command at the palace, hastened to the rescue with a strong force. A brief though sharp contest, involving a loss of twenty-three men, sufficed to reduce the intruders; and elsewhere similar prompt measures served to counteract the effort of conspirators, who with bellringing and shouts of Federation and Santa Anna! sought to rally the populace.[2] Rangel was captured in a hiding-place, yet let off by a sympathetic courtmartial with ten years confinement to Acapulco fortress,[3] while the rebellious troops were distrib uted in different directions to brood and brew fresh trouble. The Tabasco movement was also quelled, with the arrest of the leader.[4]
- ↑ Seized in December as a leading Santanist officer. Boletin Notic., Dec. 29, 1844.
- ↑ Among the fallen was Captain Othon, the captain of the guard which joined Rangel.
- ↑ This court, one of Santa Anna s permanent institutions, was now dissolved by the congress. The defence and judgment were based on technicalities, Requena, Defensa del Gen. Rangel, 1-16; Id., Segunda Defensa, 1-8, of so shallow an order that the court was assailed and obliged to defend itself. Rangel, Espos. por la Corte, 1-53. For additional details, see Pap. Far., xiv. pts 4-5, lxxxv. pts 10-12, lxxxvi. pt. 3, cxcviii. pts 1-2; Rivera, Mex. Pint., i. 23, with account of the palace movement; also Monit. Constit., June 1, 8 to 20, 1845, passim, and other journals. Bustamante, Mem. Hist. Mex., MS., ii. 123-73, 211, iii. 18-20, 66-7. Some of Rangel's fellow-officers were degraded.
- ↑ Tab., Manif. que hace el Com., 1-19; Amigo del Pueblo, July 19, 1845. The following additional authorities have been consulted for the foregoing chapter: Bustamante, Voz de la Patria, MS., vi. 1; Id., Gabinete Mex., 98-104, 155-7, 205-12, ii. 55-7, 164-206; Id., Nuevo Bernal Diaz, i. 18-32, 67-70, 90-2; Id., Hist. Iturbide, 214, 291-3: Id., No hay Peor Cuña, 1-15; Id., Santa Anna, passim, MS., ii. 1-8, 17-26, 40, 46, 54-66, 81, 127-8, MS., iii. 22-61; Id., Mem. para la Hist. Mex., MS., i.-iii. passim; Id., Diario Mex., MS., xliii. 291-2, 336, xliv.-xlvi. passim; Id., Diario Exact Mex., MS., nos 3 and 5; Dublan and Lozano, Legist. Mej., iii. 535-6, 709-10, 722, 731-3, 753, iv. passim, v. 10-11, 17-18; Córtes Diar. Congreso, iv. no. 91, 1751; Cong. Globe, 1842-3, 62; Willie, Noticias Hacᵈᵃ Públ., 30, 32, 53-7, 76-7, ap. 14-28; Arrillaga, Recop., 1838, 204-6, May 1849-April 1850, 12-26; Niles S. Am. and Mex., i. 116-19; Id., Register, lii. 97, 113, lviii. 354, lix. 17, lxi. 66, 196, 241, 322, lxii. 51, 64, 96, 145, 163-4, 192, 210-11, 258, 305, lxiii.-lxv. passim, lxvi. 211, 257, 292, 305-6, 321, 326, 337-8, 353, lxvii. 2, 178, 193, 256-7,
