This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...in his old gray Mexican uniform, with the prison pallor still showing in his face, but the old fighting spirit shining in his eyes, moved them almost to tears. That night the joyful news was sent over the mountains that Diaz was in the field again. CHAPTER XIX OAXACA's HERO RENEWS THE WAR AGAINST MAXIMILIAN After two ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...in his old gray Mexican uniform, with the prison pallor still showing in his face, but the old fighting spirit shining in his eyes, moved them almost to tears. That night the joyful news was sent over the mountains that Diaz was in the field again. CHAPTER XIX OAXACA's HERO RENEWS THE WAR AGAINST MAXIMILIAN After two nights' sleep at the ranch, Diaz began his third campaign against the invaders and imperialists. At seven o'clock on the morning of September 22, 1865, he rode rapidly to a spot agreed upon, accompanied by Colonel Garcia, two orderlies, a bugler, and a guide, and there he was joined by eight other fighting patriots. The whole force, when assembled, consisted of fourteen horsemen, some armed with pistols, others with carbines. This was the new Army of the East. On that very day he surprised a detachment of the enemy at Tehuitzingo, there swelling his little army to forty men, and with this force on the following evening he daringly attacked a squadron coming out of Pixtala, under Lieutenant-Colonel Carpintero, routing and pursuing it for more than three miles. So hot was Diaz's pursuit that the fugitives abandoned about seventy horses and some arms. The prison smell had not left his clothes, yet Diaz had won two victories and was pressing the campaign with almost incredible energy. Not an hour was lost, not a point was forgotten. He gathered from Tlapa seventyeight additional men under Lieutenant-Colonel Cano. Then he was joined by thirty guerrillas, under Tomas Sanchez, in Tepetlapa. An intensely cold storm shut up his force for four days in that small town. News came to him that Marshal Bazaine, who well knew the military and political importance of the escaped prisoner of war, had sent two detachments from Puebla in swift pursuit of him. Colo...
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