the besiegers and besieged were entitled to much commendation for their bravery and constancy.
The whole nation received with enthusiastic joy the news of the capture of the sole point of Mexican territory which had remained in the possession of Spain. The officers, soldiers, and sailors, to whose good services was justly credited this result, were duly rewarded;
and the Spanish flag that had waved over San Juan de Ulúa was deposited on the 12th of December in the Santuario de la Vírgen de Guadalupe.
Vallejo, Col. Doc., i. no. 14, 1-2; Ward's Mex., ii. 262; Niles' Req., xxix. 182, 231, 259, 276, 355-6, 390; S. L. Potosí, Rel de las Demost., 1-10; Cor. Fed. Mex., Dec. 2, 1826, 1-3; Gaz. de Mex., 1826, May 2, 2-3; Suarez y Navarro, Hist. Méx., 73. The sick Spaniards, namely, 148 soldiers and sailors, one treasury officer, and six others, were cared for in the hospitals of Vera Cruz.
