STATEMENT OF THE MEXICAN ARMY.
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and artillerymen, with 11,073 horses. Of foreign troops—Belgians, 1,324; Austrians, 6,545, with 1,409 horses. This makes 12,482 horses, and an effective military force of 43,520 men.
A force like the above, assisted by the French, was capable, as we have seen, of ensuring the triumph of the empire if only its managers had remained on good terms with one another and full of energy. But, to use the just language of the minister of state—'God had not ordained it.'
