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march to return to Buenos Ayres. Alvear requested of Carrera to impede 
their retreat; but he repeated his determination not to compromise him- 
self for the affairs of another, and Alvear’s corps retired unmolested. 
Alvear, seven colonels, and forty-seven officers, including lieutenant-colo- 
nels and majors, followed our regiment, with their servants, and a few sol- 
diers, who would not return to Buenos Ayres. 
Ramirez continued his march to the Entre Rios, as we did ours to Santa 
Fé. Nothing in the march occurred worthy of notice. We encamped in 
the Rincon de Gorondona, an angle of land formed by the confluence of the 
Carcarafia and Parrana, covered with wood, and affording good pasture for 
our horses and cattle. Alvear’s officers, who were under our protection, 
formed their encampment about a league below ours, on the bank of the 
Parrana. Ramirez passed over to the Bajada, where he was received with 
every demonstration of joy by his countrymen. 
In our encampment we remained two months; during which our soldiers 
were trained to the cavalry exercise, charge, and manceuvres. Two gun- 
brigs, with some gun-boats, came up the river, conveying arms, ammunition, 
clothing, and money, to Carrera, for our regiment: the arms, ammunition, 
and clothing, which were remaining, together with the gun-brigs and boats, 
were presented by Carrera to Ramirez, the officers and men still continuing 
in them to serve Ramirez in the river. 
About this time a captain came to our encampment with letters from Co- 
lonel Dorego in Buenos Ayres, informing Carrera, that by a revolution of 
Soler, Saratea had been deposed, and the inhabitants reduced to a more 
miserable state than ever. Soler had declared himself captain-general of the 
province, marched to Luxan, with his new-organised troops, formed an en- 
campment about one mile distant from that town, where he disciplined his 
corps, and obliged the Cabildo in Buenos Ayres to lay a weekly contribution 
on the people for the regular payment and support of his military establish- 
ment. A French officer also arrived with correspondences from Chile, soli- 
citing the speedy assistance of Carrera in co-operation with his country, in 
order to sustain a revolution which had been set on foot immediately on 
hearing that he was at the head of a force. As it was too far advanced in 
the season to cross the Andes, the revolutionists were obliged to desist, and 
a distant relation of Carrera gave information of the plan to O’ Higgins; in 
consequence of which several persons of the highest respectability were sent 
into exile in different places, and forty of the principal officers concerned were 
