General Mangin remained with some foreign and Mexican troops to follow up the advantage, calling back the inhabitants of Oajaca,[1] installing local authorities, and organizing militia in Villa Alta and other districts. Félix Diaz' followers melted away after several ineffectual movements. Figueroa was driven from his retreat at Huehuetlan, and the independent mountaineers were either watched or won over. The French being called away, Austrians took their place, but ineffectually, for Figueroa achieved several triumphs, and other republicans rose in different parts
to contend, with varying success, for control in lower Puebla and Vera Cruz;[2] while farther south the Juarist cause remained supreme, favored to a great extent by the renewed outbreak of race war in Yucatan, which distracted the small forces of General Galvez.[3]
- ↑ The emperor sent a considerable sum to assist them.
- ↑ As near Vera Cruz city as Rio Blanco. Details in Diario Imp., Mar. 18, etc., 1865; La Voz de Méj., id.; La Estrella de Occid., id.; Iglesias, Revistas, iii. 455-7, 663-72. 'Hoy Oaxaca está casi bloqueado,' states a correspondent, in Pap. y Corr. Famil. Imp., 150-1; Rivera, Hist. Jal., v. 632, 651, etc.; Vega, Docs, pt 24.
- ↑ The Indians had been encouraged by the too friendly efforts of the commissioner, Ilarregui, 'que fuese desarmada la guardia móvil.' Iglesias, ii.
