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Rh Before the victory over Olvera, Escobedo had in March descended from his retreat between Linares and Galeana, with 2,000 men, as far as Catorce, attempting also a futile attack on Matehuala, and thence swooping upon Tula, from which the approach of a strong force drove him back. Jeanningros and Douay pursued and inflicted contributions on the towns supporting him; but he escaped, and the whole line,

from the Huasteca, through Victoria and Linares to Rio Grande, remained in republican hands. The val-