Archivo General 301 
Id. with the commandant of Tehuantepec. 
Correspondence concerning the purchase of arms in the United States by 
certain banished persons, and orders not to admit the arms into the 
Republic. 
1854. Legajo no. 5. “ Ynvasion de Sonora y Baja California de Walker y 
Raousset. Todo lo relativo. Accion de la Calentura. Ejecucion 
de Melendres”, etc. Correspondence extending from 1852 to 
1856. Some 600 ff. 
Correspondence concerning Raousset. June-Nov., 1852. 
Correspondence of Raousset with the President and other authorities. 
Sept.-Nov., 1853. 
(In a letter of Sept. 4, 1853, he proposes raising an expedition of 500 men to 
go against the Apache of Sonora.) 
Correspondence with the commandant of Baja California. May, 1854. 
Walker’s expedition. His defeat at La Calentura by Antonio M. Melén- 
drez ; execution of Meléndrez ; correspondence of 1853-1855. 60 ff. 
Invasion of Sonora by Raousset. Jan., 1854-1855. 
Appearance at Guaymas; report (detall) of the action at Guaymas, 
July 13, 1854; French prisoners. 
Intercepted correspondence of Raousset. 
Concerning thirty-two Americans expelled from Mazatlan at the time of 
the Raousset invasion. | 
1854. Legajo no. 6. Correspondence with the military authorities. 
Fears of invasion of Coahuila and Tamaulipas. 
Military preparations of the forces of the United States on the left bank 
of the Rio Bravo. Rumors of war against Mexico. Jan.-Feb., 
1854. 
Chihuahua. Correspondence with the local authorities, requesting re- 
ports concerning the rumors that the United States plan to annex 
Chihuahua. Dec., 1853. 
Correspondence with General Woll concerning threatened revolution at 
Camargo. Sept., 1853. 
Note.—Beginning with 1855 the legajos for each year are arranged alpha- 
betically, each legajo being devoted to one or more letters of the alphabet. 
The following headings contained in the legajos for 1855 will give a general 
idea of the arrangement: armas, amagos a poblaciones, acontecimientos, 
acciones de guerra, actas de adhesion, acusaciones, asesinatos, asaltos, Alta 
California, ascensiones de oficiales, batallones, brigadas, comandancias gene- 
rales, causas, circulares, correos, campajfias, destierros, denuncias, defecciones, 
demolicién (of various places), depdsito, desconocimiento, departamentos, 
divisiones, decretos, escuadrones, embargos, escoltas, encuentros, Espajfioles, 
entregas (of commands), excesos, estados (reports from different states), 
Indios, fusilados, fuerzas, fiestas, filibusteros, fugas, facciosos, fletes, forta- 
lezas, fuertes, guerra, guarnici6n, gavillas, haberes, hospital, informes, indul- 
tos, impresos, Indios, instrucciones, motines, movimientos de fuerzas, mani- 
fiestos, marchas, nombramientos, noticias, ocupacion (of places), ordenes, 
presos politicas, prisioneros de guerra, partes de tranquilidad, pronunciamien- 
tos, piquetes, pasaportes, replazos para el ejército, reos (condemned to ser- 
vice), renuncias (of commands), revoluciones, sucesos (in various places), 
sublevaciones, temores (of invasion, revolution, etc.), telégrafos, varios 
asuntos, vestido y equipaje. 
