cinto Pat, divided the power, in the east, centre, and south respectively. The white men proposed to follow up the advantage by harassing the foe, carrying the war into their midst, and affirming the progress made by pushing the cantonments farther and farther, obtaining prisoners, and compressing the revolution within ever-narrowing limits. This plan met with a certain degree of success in the Valladolid region;[1] but below, round Tihosuco, greater resistance was encountered, and the Indians turned the tables by laying siege to this town, and Saban, one of the new cantonments, maintaining it obstinately for months, despite the efforts for relief,[2] and encouraging their comrades in the north to firmer resistance, so much so that they ventured to attack Valladolid itself. West of the central campaign ground extended the mountainous district of Chenes, within a dozen leagues of Campeche, where the rebels still held forth,[3] almost in the midst of the cultured settlers. Stirred by comrades driven from the eastern fields, they became so daring as to provoke Campeche to special expeditions against them; but although the troops generally overcame all resistance, the foe proceeded only to reoccupy their ground, and maintain a harassing guerrilla conflict from the fastnesses.
For the southern canıpaign, centring round Bacalar, a double aim was proposed. This region bordered on Belize, occupied by the British under treaties of 1783 and 1786 for purposes of trade alone, yet gradually came to be regarded as a colonial possession.[4]
- ↑ Where Col Mendez, by the end of January 1849, gained four villages, and established two cantons at Chemax and Tikuch. In the following months the garrisons were extended to Yalcobá, and an expedition from Tizimia made a successful march toward Chancenote, bringing back more than 300 prisoners. Boletin Ofic. for these months, passim.
- ↑ Saban lay south of Ichmul, and the other cantonment, Chikinçonot, north. The siege of Tihosuco began in Jan. 1849. Globo, March 1, 1849.
- ↑ Round Hopelchen, Bolonchenticul, etc.
- ↑ The forcible entry into the district of the Yucatan governor, O'Neill, in 1798, and his defeat, led the colonists to regard their occupation as affirmed by conquest; but by convention of 1802 the right was not sustained. The treaty of commerce between Mexico and England in 1826 confirmed the privileges held under the treaties with Spain; and although the clause was vague,
