Washington telegraph., 1851-09-17
JOhnson's majority,
3,O99


The FIRsr BATrLE.-A letter from Havana
gives the following detailed account of the first
engagement between the Cuban patriots and the
Spanish troops:
The first battle took place on the 18th. Gen.
Enna, at the head of 800 or 1000 men of the regi-
ment of Bailen took the field in the plain of Pozas.
Our brothers were commanded BY Ambrozio Con
zales. At the head Of his brave mee he advanced
towards the serviIe troops enough TO harangue
them in the name of fraternity and liberty but the
vile chief who commanded those to whom these
words were addressed, stimulated them by the cry
of-The Queen! Spain! Gonzales, nevertheless,
repeated, second time, the offer of determination.
The royalists replied to him by a discharge which
the heroes bore with camness, stretching out a
third time their hands TO those whom they con-
sidered as brothers astray.
Eana not failing to attribute to cowardice this
camness and serenity which Were only the result
Of the noblest devotedness of herosm, ordered his
men to charge on them with the bayOnet. Then
there more hesitation. Gonzales ordered
hs snen to fire, and six discharges, close at hand
terrified them and put them to fight, leaving the
field, covered with the dead, free to our patriots.
The terror and confusion Of towards had seized on
them; and when the steamer "Habanero's return
ed to look for troops here, it was truly iaughable
10 see them running from the palace to the quai,
to cause the battalion Gallica, which as al the
Cubana TO embark.
There are vague accounts Of a second affair;
concerning which have no positive informati ion,
but know, from certain sources, that the royalis
troops are harrassed and perpIexed by the LIBERIA
tors and by different, bodies OF Creoes from The
Vuelta de Abajo and from Havana. Almost all
the troops who were here have left, and to night
again six companies have gone away by the rail-
road.
As for of Havana, for the last FIVE days, since
the liberatofs landed, we have been expecting
Orders from the chief who to head us, to rise to
the number of 1000 men, all perfectly resolute;
and it is probable that when you receive this letter
we shall then be already with our brothers the
patriots.
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