receipt, shortly after the victory, of the cross of the legion of honor, sent by Napoleon. San Luis Potosí remained after this comparatively quiet, save in the northern districts; but even in the more southern department of Guanajuato and Querétaro into Mexico and Puebla, guerrillas rose now and then, with little success, however.[1]
The only important exception, so far, to the succession of republican disasters is furnished in the
campaign of General Diaz. At the head of the eastern division of the army, consisting of about 3,000 men, with a few cannon, organized mainly by himself, he swept, early in the autumn of the preceding year, through Querétaro, Michoacan, and Mexico, into Guerrero, driving Valdés before him, and laying
- ↑ For details concerning preceding operations in the northern and western regions, see La Voz de Méj., Jan. to June 1804, passim; Periód. Ofic., Id., Zamacois, Hist. Méj., xvi. 923 et seq., xvii. 7 et seq.; Iglesias, Revistas, ii. 251 et seq.
from his indignant return of a pass procured for him from the imperial authorities. Zamacois, Hist. Méj., xvii. 516-18.
