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Rh was no place of safety to be found. The governor was besought and entreated to spare the further effusion of blood by a surrender. Proud and punctilious to the end he refused to do any thing that would derogate from his honor, but was finally persuaded to yield up the command to General Landero, by whom negotiations were opened with General Scott. At eight o'clock in the morning of the 26th the batteries ceased

playing, and articles of capitulation were signed on the following day. The surrender of the city took place in the morning of the 29th, when the Mexican forces marched out to a plain about one mile outside the