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Now we will keep due west. There are no large towns now, till we reach Tlatlanquitepec and Perote. From that point our danger will be the greatest, for all the roads across the mountains are sure to be watched. The guards at the station houses on these roads have, no doubt, by this time had orders to look for you and arrest you; but by traveling at night, we may pass them safely.
In them was all that remained of many stout hearts, with whom, side by side, he had marched to glory and victory. There were the forms with whom he had triumphantly mounted the battlements at Vera Cruz, and raised the stars and stripes over the city of Mexico. There, before him, forever silent, were the dead heroes of Chepultepec and Perote.
"Sweetmeats and slippers," said Herbert to himself, "shawls and daggers!" What next? 'And has George been with you all the time? inquired Venetia. 'Oh! we quarrelled now and then, of course. He found Athens dull, and would stay at Constantinople, chained by the charms of a fair Perote, to whom he wanted me to write sonnets in his name. I would not, because I thought it immoral.
This reduced Scott's force in the field to about five thousand men. Early in May, Worth, with his division, left Perote and marched on to Puebla. The roads were wide and the country open except through one pass in a spur of mountains coming up from the south, through which the road runs. Notwithstanding this the small column was divided into two bodies, moving a day apart.
The transparency of its atmosphere makes the snow-crowned Orizaba and Perote, in the coast range of mountains, appear close at hand, with their dense forests of perpetual foliage, moistened incessantly by the clouds driven upon them from the ocean.
He made his first stand at the Castle of Perote; but finding this too isolated a position, he marched to Oajaca, in the extreme southwest of the Republic, and took up his quarters in the Dominican convent of that city. As he was closely hemmed in by an active enemy, provisions grew scarce, and he was forced to resort to a novel method of supplying himself.
The first considerable obstacle after the capture of Vera Cruz having been removed, the army proceeded on its march to the City of Mexico, occupying Jalapa and Castle Perote on the way; but at Puebla the forces were so reduced by sickness, death, and the expiration of enlistments as to compel a halt.
Worth's division was selected to go forward to secure this result. The division marched to Perote on the great plain, not far from where the road debouches from the mountains. There is a low, strong fort on the plain in front of the town, known as the Castle of Perote. This, however, offered no resistance and fell into our hands, with its armament.
Still climbing. A moment's View of all the Kingdoms of the World. Again in obscurity. The Maguey, or Century Plant. The many uses of the Maguey. The intoxicating juice of the Maguey. Pulque. Immense Consumption of Pulque. City of Perote. Castle of San Carlos de Perote. Tequisquita. "The Bad Land." A very old Beggar. Arrive at Puebla. The time allotted for my visit to Jalapa had come to a close.
General Santa Anna arrives at Cerro Gordo Engagement at Atalay General Orders No. 111 Reports from Jalapa Report of engagement at Cerro Gordo Occupation of Perote Account of a Mexican historian General Santa Anna's letter to General Arroya Delay of the Government in sending re-enforcements Danger of communications with Vera Cruz Troops intended for Scott ordered to General Taylor Colonel Childs appointed governor of Jalapa Occupation of Puebla Arrival of re-enforcements Number of Scott's force.
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