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574 Along a line of two leagues lay stretched 600 dead, and 700 were captured, including a score of superior officers, among them Matamoros, who was directing the flight, while Morelos was striving to save from disaster what he could.

Two hundred prisoners were offered in exchange for him, but this and other efforts in his behalf proved useless. He was shot February 3d at Valladolid, dying with the firmness to be expected of so valiant and brilliant a leader. Unimposing in appearance, but of strong character and magnetism, he had exerted a marked influence on the campaigns of