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Rh well organized force with the rabble he had lately led, he felt confident of victory. 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