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126 receipt, shortly after the victory, of the cross of the legion of honor, sent by Napoleon. San Luis Potosí remained after this comparatively quiet, save in the northern districts; but even in the more southern department of Guanajuato and Querétaro into Mexico and Puebla, guerrillas rose now and then, with little success, however.

The only important exception, so far, to the succession of republican disasters is furnished in the

campaign of General Diaz. At the head of the eastern division of the army, consisting of about 3,000 men, with a few cannon, organized mainly by himself, he swept, early in the autumn of the preceding year, through Querétaro, Michoacan, and Mexico, into Guerrero, driving Valdés before him, and laying