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F ‘. my’s side 5 We the river, "Oi people, aS brisk in firing, ake the . 
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. RB menons and cattle were forced with cay labor across, the river, 
our atl In an hour and twenty minutes our b gage ‘train had 
all crossed, the iter of the enemy was sg nd agghay ge 
ill. 
alf way Betiéed the hill and. a aM the enemy riitide a furious 
charge on our left flank. At t same moment, our ite was 
threatened. The 1st and 2d battal 
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‘order was countermanded; tk 
was directed to rush for the 
tested point, but Sige ot Shir surprise to Rind it abandoned. 
‘he enemy pitched his camp on the hills in view, but when 
. Morning came, he was gone. We had no means of pursuit, and 
Marca’ the power of locomotion, such was the wretched condition 
of our wagon train. The latter it was still oe to 
drag along for the purpose of feeding the gasison, intended to be 
~ cle of foil. Distance 9.3 mile 
January 9.—The grass wa very short and young, and our cattle 
were not much recruited by the night’s rest; we commenced 1 our 
Ais leisurely, at 9 o’clock, over the “ Mesa, ” a wide : 
Be een the Rio San Gabriel and the Rio San Ferhandé 
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ae Bicds addressed his men, ‘aha called on them to make one 
_jhote charge; expressed his confidence in thei ability to break our 
yesterday he had been deceived i in supposing that 
he was fighting dol diers 
x _ We inclined a little to pe left to avoid giving Floredithe adyan- 
ge of the ground to post his artillery; in other respects we con- 
Eat our march on — Pueblo as if he were not in view. 
oreast of him, he opened his artilléry at a long 
ied our march without halting, except fora 
= in thé cart, and once to exchange 
of the guns. 
4d lores d eployed his Fhe. making a horse shoe 
our | and opened his nine-pound ers on our right flank, and 
smaller Wieves on our front. The shot from the nine-pounders 
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left in the Ciudad de los Angeles, the report being that the Sty ; 
intended, if we reached that aa to burn and destroy every arti- 
fire of the enemy wild and uncertain. Under this cover, the . 
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