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" Dawn Rom September 17, till.
I. 4s the' army ''of the Mesiemi Patriots of North,.
is.they style' themselves, after meeting with.succassiil
s wonderful- as that of Cortez, . less fortunate howl.
ver in the result, have it length met with a reverse:
;On'the 2bth Of last month they were entirely defeat:
fed, about 20 miles from St. Antonio. They hays•
de a stand -at Nacogdoches, but it is very ques-,
Aiotiable whether they will be able to maintain it
ong. From a very small beginning, without money.
,or arms,.they had gtewn so formidable as to excite
!consternation among the Royal Party, and the Vice.
baoy began to be more apprehensive of them, than of
tall the other insurgents put togethet. From the fre-
,quent defeats of their enemies, they had succeeded in
'obtaining a sufficient supply of ammunition andmili-
iary stores. In the battle of the 20th of June, 'they
.had nine hundred men, two hundred and fifty of
whoM were Americans; the rest natives, and a'few
Indians. The victory obtained on -this occasion gale
:SO much eclat, that the•people from every part of the
United States flocked to•join the standard; some.by
the way of Upper Lusiana, some_ by the way ctf the.
Arkanas,. an d others 'by Nacogdoches.
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" The deposing of Bernardo, who had been (guilty
of great imprudence; and shocking barbarity, ant
the name of Toledo; a man of as much cekbrity air
Nitanda, added new incitements: -.A number 4,1..1
spectable young men oi an enterprising and-adv.*?
turout eliaratter, set off to V); 'under. the- biimisitif
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":. Previous. to the late disastrous engagement,
there was an army of at least tw9 thousand men on-
der Toledo, completely armed, with twelve pieces of
artillery, and six hundred Americans. Perhaps a
braver, or more determined set of men, were never
collected than these Americans. Of this ntimbir
there %were, perhaps, twenty Europeansi ales/ Frehrb-
meni but not more than half.a.dozen Creoles Of •Lti-
siarsa. The Royalists had by this time approached
St. Antonio. with an army of at least five thousand,
two thousand of which were veteran troops.
66 The patriots mxrcherkout to give them 'battle,
surprised their van-guard and-put them to flight ;
'autinstead of halting, forming themselves in proper
order and choosing their grounds they rushed' on. in
spite of every thing their leaders could do, with the
most ungovernable impetuosity. They suddenly
found themselves in the midst of their 'enemies ::here
ensued a conflict as bloody as'any recorded in his.
tory t on both sides they fought with desperate va-,
loUr—the patriots were at length overpowered by
numbers—were defeated, and sixteen hundred eta.
off, -not without hiving stretched more than'thAr
own number in the dust. The princiial Chiefs eteap-
ed,-.and. have reached the remnant of the army at
Nacogdoches.
.44 Two hundred families. of 414 natives, have fled
to the United States for protection.—lt is:stiPposed,
that it is the iiitention of the bloddy Aredondo; who
committed the Massacres' at Guanahualo,
and Almira, murdering women and children,. to my
.waste the whole of the province of Texas, and leave
:nothing but 3 wilderness between the limits of qw
United States and the Rio del-Mine. •