CONTENTS.
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CHAPTER XXVII. | |
VICEROY APODACA AND HIS VIGOROUS MEASURES. | |
1816-1817. | |
Causes Which Sustained the Revolution — Review of Calleja's Rule — Character of the New Viceroy Apodaca — Measures to Gain Adhesion — Combined Movement against Tehuacan — Its Siege and Surrender — Deplorable Weakness of Teran — Vera Cruz is Swept by the Royalists — Their Successes in Mizteca — The Council of Jaujilla — Strife in Michoacan — Tarnished Reputation of Ramon Rayon — The Five Years' Siege of Mescala is Ended — Treachery of Vargas — Movements in the North — The Declining Insurrection Centres in Guanajuato — Apodaca's Success. | 645 |
CHAPTER XXVIII. | |
MINA'S EXPEDITION. | |
1817. | |
A Famous Navarrese Guerrilla — Preparing for the Enterprise — The Landing at Soto la Marina — Alarm of the Royalists — The Victory at Peotillos — Penetrating the Interior — Traits of Mina Overthrow of Ordoñez and Castañon — Liberation of Prisoners — Jealousy of Torres — Character of Mexican Guerrillas — Fall of Soto la Marina — Siege of Fort Sombrero — Ravages of Thirst and Sword — The Bulwark of Independence — Mina's Field Operations — Repulse at Guanajuato — Capture and Execution of Mina — Reflections on his Undertaking — Siege and Fall of Los Remedies — Bibliography. | 659 |
CHAPTER XXIX. | |
PLAN OF IGUALA. | |
1817-1821. | |
Capture of Insurgent Chiefs — Fort of Jaujilla — Dispersion of the Junta — Pardon Accepted by Numerous Leaders — A Flickering Light — Affairs in Spain — The Spanish Constitution Proclaimed in Mexico — Election of Deputies — Thoughts of Independence — Iturbide Reappears — Diversity of Political Opinions — Plots to Overthrow the Constitution — Iturbide in Command — Well-disguised Designs — Overtures to Guerrero — Independence Proclaimed — The Plan of Iguala — Measures of the Viceroy. | 688 |
CHAPTER XXX. | |
TRIUMPH OF THE REVOLUTION. | |
1821. | |
Discouraging Prospects — Independence Proclaimed at Guanajuato — Valladolid Capitulates — The Provincias Internas Revolutionized — Iturbide at Querétaro — Apodaca's Doposal — His Conduct Discussed — His Successor — Bravo Joins the Revolutionists — Operations in Puebla and Vera Cruz — Santa Anna Repulsed at Vera Cruz — Victoria's Reappearance — Iturbide Enters Puebla — Arrival of O'Donojú — His Antecedents — Treaty pf Córdoba — Novella Hesitates to Recognize O'Donojú — Iturbide Enters the Capital — End of the Revolution. | 712 |