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Show believers. over the country — that arrant cowards; General to which Armijo he answered, and the New ‘‘ Adios, Mexicans they were don’t know a pack of I had but seventy-five men to fight three thousand. What could I do?’’ _ On the 13th of December, 1853, while the legislative assembly was in session at Santa Fé, Dr. Henry Connelly, a member of the council, who had been a friend of General Armijo for many years prior to the Mexican war, offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted, viz: ‘Resolved, That this Council has heard with profound regret of the death of our distinguished citizen, General Armijo, who expired on the 9th day of this month. Resolved, That this Council offer the most sincere condolence to the family and friends of General Armijo and to the Territory for the loss of one of its greatest benefactors. Resolved, That in respect to the memory and distinguished services of General Armijo this Council now adjourn until 10 o’clock tomorrow. James H. Quinn was the president and Elias T. Clark the secretary of the council at this time. 2 soenrante, in Nuevo Bernal Diaz, ii., 103-5, gives an account of the flight historically pe ee It is replete with mis-statements and of no value he records of the war department fail to reveal any regular report of a eeaicn of Santa Fé made by General Kearny. L brief ee a is Calif ornt 18 ae of August 24th on page 59-60 of Cutts’s The Conquest of ae jgeeye Hee Mexico by the Forces of the United States in the years - ames Madison ) jie as ah 7 Sac i es ah aa ee he ets ie the Cutts, Phil., 1847. earliest not found published, elsewhere. This work gives a résume and The most contains complete many record original of the "6 18 to be found pp. 15 to 32 of Emory’s Notes of a Military e€ ao) Bae Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in Caltforma, cg ef th cong., Ist sess. H: Ex. Doc. 41, Sen. Ex. Doc., 7. This 18 & y by day down to and including Kearny’s march to California. The “YI “u04) S LO NT SEL T1OR). = many rtoydoystayy found ey they Ruxton, an Englishman, traveling in Mexico the year following the flight of Armijo, on his way from the city of Mexico north, met General Armijo near Durango. In his book, Adventures in Mexico, p. 118, Ruxton says: ‘‘I stopped and had a long chat with Armijo, who, a mountain of fat, rolled out of his American ‘dearborn’ and inquired the price of cotton goods in Durango, he having some seven wagon-loads with him, and also what they said in Mexico of the doings in Santa Fé, alluding to its capture by the Americans without any resistance. I told him there was but one opinion respecting it expressed all TOW where ‘uosie) their altars. General Arimjo knew the falsity of these accusations and the injustice and absurdity of such imputations; nevertheless he used every available means of disseminating these statements throughout New Mexico “UBLIO On the morning of the 18th of August Kearny had reached a Not a hostile arrow or point twenty-nine miles from Santa Fé. and the ancient capital West the rifle was now between the Army of make the march in one to determined general The of New Mexico. day and raise the American colors over the ancient palace before Fifteen miles from Santa Fé the column reached the sundown. It is a gateway, which, in the hands of a point deserted by Armijo. competent engineer and one hundred resolute men would have As has been said, had the position proved a second Thermopylae. been defended with spirit and ability, General Kearny would have [ised HISTORY ‘ueny MEXICAN NEW ITS OF ut FACTS ‘Ty souer LEADING WOJOTIVD 908 |