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70 in its efforts to send pecuniary aid to the peninsula, could not afford the expense of maintaining a standing army. A regiment of grenadiers was organized, and this with the dragoons of Mexico constituted the military force in the capital.

During Garibay's rule the revolutionary tendency advanced apace. Secret meetings were held at private houses. A society known as the Racionales Caballeros was organized at Vera Cruz, Jalapa, and Mexico, which by its machinations greatly aided the cause of independence. Further than this, the secret agents of Joseph Bonaparte were actively at work inciting the inhabitants to rebellion.