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reverses Santa Anna fled to Oaxaca, where he was besieged by
government troops; a fresh outbreak, led by Guerrero's sup-
porters in the capital, made the recall of these troops necessary
and saved Santa Anna from capture.
The government troops attacked the insurgents in Mexico
City on December 2, 1828, and were defeated after two days
of fighting. Anarchy prevailed in the capital for several days;
the rabble, taking advantage of the situation, pillaged and
destroyed property valued at two million dollars. G6mez Pedraza,
seeing his cause lost, fled secretly to Guadalajara. A few days
later he formally resigned his right to the presidency and left
the country, bound for London. On January 9, 1829, congress
recognized the claims of Guerrero and declared him elected to
the office of president as Victoria's successor, and confirmed
Anastasio Bustamante.62
The state of anarchy prevailing in Mexico before the recogni-
tion of Guerrero necessitated the immediate return of Mier y
Tertn, who, it will be recalled, was a member of the general
military staff as inspector-general of artillery. Word came to
him on January 11, at Nacogdoches, and it is an interesting
commentary on means of communication one hundred and ten
years ago that he did not learn about the establishment of order
and the election of Guerrero and Bustamante until he reached
Matamoros early in March.
Mier y TerAn was loath to leave Texas. His love of scientific
pursuits overcame all the privations he had suffered. The spring
and fall rains had made any kind of travel almost unbearably
difficult. The intensity of the heat and the dry weather during
the summer of 1828 had undoubtedly affected his health. His
food was the officers' fare at the presidio, and we have seen
from his communication to G6mez Pedraza that the officers as
well as the men were on scanty rations. The members of his
commission were divided into two groups and were not operat-
ing at all as he had planned that they should, and his resources
62General accounts of these events are given by N. Zamacois, Historia de
Mejico, XI, 669-694; F. de Paula de Arrangoiz, Mdjico desde 1808, II, 185-
191; and, H. I. Priestly, The Mexican Nation, 266-267. Special studies of
the parts played by Guerrero and Santa Anna are found in two doctoral
dissertations, MSS., in The University of Texas Library: W. F. Sprague,
"The Life of Vicente Guerrero, Mexican Revolutionary Patriot, 1782-1831"
[1934], 173-193, and W. E. Hancock, "The Career of General Antonio
L6pez de Santa Anna, 1795-1833" [1933] 348-442.138
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