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LAST CAMPAIGNS UNDER CALLEJA.

lowing year, till the opening of November, when he received a severe check in seeking to intercept a convoy from Oajaca.[1] It was the forerunner of the storm which was now about to burst upon him, as well as on the other leaders.

    ticioso Gen., July 28th, August and October passim, Nov. 6th, 13th, Dec. 2, 1815; Jan. 22, Mar. 4, 8, May 10, 24, 1816; Mendíbil, Res., 242-8, 254-8; Carriedo, Estud. Oaj., ii. 32-3. Alaman, Hist. Méj., iv. 191-4, 256-9, gives less attention to him than to Teran and other chiefs. A rich convoy from Acapulco reached Mexico in safety in Dec., after three months' passage, a delay caused partly by prudent regard for insurgents, partly by bad roads.

  1. In the cañada de los Naranjos, Samaniego actually captured Guerrero's silver table-service. Guerrero owed his life to Pablo de la Rosa. On the return of the train, a fortnight later, Guerrero again attacked it with better success; but as the royalists now combined in larger force, he retired toward Tlajiaco.