156 WILLIAM WALKER — MUNOZ. Book I. 
been taken by the Granadinos. Munoz had become the 
prisoner of Chamorro, and would have been shot, but for 
the interference of his English friends, who succeeded in 
commuting his sentence of death into banishment from the 
State. Of all the ;c operaciones muy militares " none had 
been executed. After the capture of Leon, Chamorro was 
regularly elected Supreme Director of the State by the 
concurrence of both sections of the country. He was mag- 
nanimous enough to recal his adversary from exile, and 
intrust him anew with the command of the troops of the 
State 5 and Mufioz was sufficiently ungrateful again to take 
side with the Leonese party when they revolted against the 
government of Chamorro in 1854. In this respect Cha- 
morro proved himself the better man and the nobler 
character. The Leonese, on that occasion, placed Francisco 
Castellon at the head of their oppositional government, 
and with him Munoz once more became one of the chiefs 
of that party. Chamorro attacked Leon a second time, 
but was driven back to Granada, followed by the Leonese, 
who besieged that city, but were obliged to retreat in turn. 
In this impossibility of deciding the fate of the country, 
Castellon and his friends, amongst whom was Munoz, 
called in the aid of William Walker. When the latter, 
on his first attack upon Rivas, was deserted by the native 
troops placed under his command, Munoz was said to have 
acted as a traitor to his North American auxiliaries, though 
the question may be raised, which of the two — the North 
Americans or the Nicaraguans — first thought of using the 
others as an instrument for their own purposes ? In the 
mean time the Leonese government was attacked by a 
force from Honduras. Munoz marched against and com- 
pletely routed these invaders, but he found his death in the 
engagement. 
