CONTENTS.
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| CHAPTER XX. | |
| VICEROY CALLEJA AND HIS PLANS. | |
| 1813. | |
| Calleja's Character and Appearance — How the Appointment was Received — Condition of Affairs — Fresh Taxes and Loans — Reforms Insurgent Heroine — Constitution of 1812 Enforced — Inquisition Disappears — Increase of Crime — Protests and Counter-appeals — Extent of Insurrection — Calleja's Campaign Plan — Royalist Positions — Verdusco's Fiasco — Rayon's Tour of Inspection — Quarrel between the Leaders — Iturbide's Victory at Salvatierra. | 495 |
| CHAPTER XXI. | |
| OPERATIONS AGAINST RAYON, VILLAGRAN, AND OSORNO. | |
| 1813. | |
| Siege of Cerro del Gallo — The Poisoned Well — Insurgent Forces and their Tactics — Movements in Guanajuato — Sway of the Villagranes — Their Sudden Fall — Huasteca Campaign — Osorno and his Territory — Terreño's Military Promenade — Osorno Irrepressible — Administration of Cruz in New Galicia — Frontier Operations — Chapala Lake and its Rovers — Division of Provincias Interims — Lara's Exploits in Texas — A Flicker in the Orient. | 518 |
| CHAPTER XXII. | |
| CONGRESS OF CHILPANCINGO. | |
| 1813. | |
| Morelos' March to Acapulco — He Besieges and Captures It — Royalist Reaction — Piaxtla — Guerrillas and their Doings — Bravo's Operations — His Repulse at Alvarado — Siege of Coscomatepec — Orizaba Surprised — Second Royalist Defeat at San Agustin del Palmar — Its Consequences — Discord in the Suprema Junta — Congress of Chilpancingo — Rayon's Action — Morelos the Generalissimo and Siervo de la Nacion — Declaration of National Independence — Constitution — Jesuits. | 545 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. | |
| FALL OF MORELOS. | |
| 1813-1814. | |
| Morelos Marches against Valladolid — Calleja's Counter-movement — Repulse at the Gate of Zapote — Brilliant Charge by Iturbide — Defeat and Death of Matamoros — The Congress Asserts Itself — Armijo Overruns Tecpan Province — Galeana Falls — Maleadministration in Oajaca — Álvarez's Triumphant Entry — The Enchanted Mountain — Speculations with Convoys — Quarrel and Misconduct of Rayon and Rosains — Expedition against Zacatlan and Flight of Rayon — Manhunting in the Central Provinces. | 569 |
