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the Republican Troops Amounting to about 1000 were Imme-
diately Marched Out under the Command of Major Perry from
the State of Connecticut to Attack them. The Royalist Ran
before Perry some within gun shots of them, & being Mounted
& the others on foot were not persued. The Republicans Re-
turned to the Town. On the 19th Scouting Mounted parties
were sent out & discovered the Camp of the Royalist Army
about Six Miles from the City, & on the 20th in the Morning
the Republican Army Commanded by Perry were Again Marched
Out to give them Battle. The Royalists discovered them in time
to form on chosen ground a small distance in front of their
Camp. The American Rifle Men began the Attack, the Royalists
soon gave way & Retreated to their Camp which they Obsti-
nately defended for about an hour; with Two Piece of Cannon
when they all broke & ran in different directions, leaving 200
dead on the ground, two Pieces of Cannon, 350 Stands of Arms,
all their Baggage, Camp equipage, 6000 Dollars in cash, a Con-
siderable quantity of Ammunition, Flour Biscuit, Sugar, Coffe,
Beans Spiritous Liquors for Three Months, & about 1000 head
of Horses & Mules with Saddles & Bridles & 70 Prisoners were
taken. The Number of wounded were not Ascertained. Col.
Helisondo [Elizondo]78 Commanded the Royal Army Assisted
by Colonels Boragos & Domingos. 600 of their Army were
regulars. The Republicans lost-Killed 7 Americans & 9 wounded,
3 Indians & 14 or 15 Spaniards, in the Battle were 300 Ameri-
cans 120 Indians & almost 800 Spaniards,"7, about 70 Americans
& a Number of Spaniards were absent on Command. The Span-
iards were mixed in with the American Companies & fought
Bravely. Major Masticot [Massicott] a Frenchman from New
Orleans,'8 Secretary of State & second in Command on that
17sIgnacio Elizondo, famous as a leader of the counter-revolution of 1811
in Coahuila, and as captor of Hidalgo at the wells of Bajtn, had been sent to
Texas by Colonel Jos6 Joaquin Arredondo, a commander of royal forces
in the Valley of Maiz, Mexico. Arredondo had decided that it was impera-
tive to crush the revolution in Texas in order to uproot it in Mexico.
Therefore he had marched northward to recapture Texas and to prevent
the conquest of the northern provinces by the Republican Army of the
North, which it was rumored intended to advance southward to the heart
of Mexico. Arredondo achieved his purpose in the northern provinces, and
encamped at Laredo to make final preparations for the conquest of Texas.
From there he sent Elizondo with orders to enter Texas, but not go to
B6xar; to observe the enemy, but not to engage them in battle. Elizondo
disobeyed orders, suffering a severe rout. Operaciones; Arredondo, III,
199-205, 210-220, 224-233, 325-333, IV, 31-32, 37-38, 40-42, 51-57, 61-65,
80-89.
179Sibley uses the term Spaniards in referring to the former soldiers of
Salcedo and Herrera who joined the republican army when Bexar was
captured. Most of these soldiers came from Nuevo Le6n and Nuevo
Santander to Texas with Herrera in 1806. Provincias Internas, vol. 201,
pp. 21-24, 37-42, 45-55, B. L.
'80Shaler informed Monroe that Louis Massicott was a French agent,
whom he had known in Havana, that since he had become Secretary of
State of Texas he was the director of everything, and was making Texas428
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