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from foreign complications, the government was permitted to give undivided attention to the federalist uprising, which, under the fostering patronage of the French fleet, had received fresh impulse. Before the autumn of 1838 it was practically confined to Jalisco, and even here the energetic Paredes had followed up his earlier successes against Urrea in Sinaloa, and against Guzman and his allies in the Guadalajara region, by giving the latter a most effective check on February 4, 1839, at the hacienda do Santa Cruz. This not only saved the depart mental capital, but reduced the revolution in the west to insignificant proportions. Southward, in Oajaca and Chiapas, slight sympathetic movements had taken place, only to be promptly suppressed. In

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