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Rh His impetuosity and strong passions, it is true, not unfrequently led him into errors, causing him to overlook individual rights and disregard law. He held the same political opinions as his brother-in-law Riaño.

Flon was about sixty years of age when he met his death at Calderon. Pedraza, who witnessed his action in the alhóndiga, says that he "was of ordinary height, with broad and arched shoulders. His countenance was of a dark brown and wrinkled, the expression of it being frowning and severe; his eyes were sunken, penetrating, and fierce, and his look proud and disdainful, while his long, heavy, gray eyebrows gave to his features an imposing and unpleasing aspect." The portrait is not a pleasing one. His remains were temporarily deposited in the neighboring parish church of Zapotlanejo, whence they were transferred to the cathedral of Guadalajara and there interred with solemn obsequies.

Calleja on the following day rested his troops on the battle-field, and then pursued his march to Guadala jara, taking with him all the serviceable cannon of the insurgents, after having destroyed and buried the rest. The revolutionary leaders fled by different routes to Zacatecas, Rayon succeeding in carrying off the army funds, which amounted to $800,000.

The loss on the side of the insurgents, as on previous occasions, is unknown, but that it was very considerable may be inferred from the fact that in the part of the field alone where Jalon went to the support of Empáran more than 1,200 fell. That sustained by the royalists was 49 killed, 134 wounded, and ten