paratively well organized force with the rabble he had lately led, he felt confident of victory.[1] At sunset he halted at the bridge of Tololotlan, six leagues from the city, and having received fresh information of Calleja's advance, he again convoked a council, at which the same questions were discussed with the same result. Proceeding on the following morning, he occupied the bridge of Calderon, and took up a strong position commanding the approach to Guadalajara. On a steep height on the left side of the river a battery of sixty-seven guns was planted. This position
was almost inaccessible in front, was protected in the rear by a deep barranca, and nearly surrounded the open ground on which Calleja would have to advance his troops. Flanking this main battery, minor ones
- ↑ 'Repitió muchas veces que iba a almorzar en el puente de Calderon, a comer en Queretaro, y a cenar en Mexico.' Cavillo Sermon, 136. Negrete in making mention of this boast remarks: 'Creo que esto no pasa de una vulgaridad.' Mex. Sig. XIX., iii. 4. See also Calleja, in Hernandez y Dávalos, Col. Doc., ii. 300. This bridge is over a small affluent of the rio Grande de Lerma, about five leagues to the north-east of the bridge of Tololotlan.
- ↑ This plan is taken from the work of Torrente, who copied it from a draft which was in the war department at Madrid. Bustamante reproduced it in his Cuad. Hist., i. 188-9. Alaman, Hist. Mej., ii. 584.
