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111 r* • » • * a ' I c* •When, some throe months since,, Co!. Harney, with a small number ofwDragoons and some four or five hundred undisciplined Texas horsemen, went from San Antonio to the Presidio, and took that place, Cnstcneda • was in command there, and retired on his approach. When Harney re- i turned, Ik* l»*tt some two Texans at the river. Castaneda returned alter : his departure, fired on a canoe cross-1 inp; the river, took three prisoners' and killed a mule. The Texans ran i off; a lar^e quantity of propertywas burned to keep it from jjettinc;' into the hands of the cnomv. Cns- t tnneda sent a bulletin to Mexico do-! tailing a three days' light, and stating that five Americans were killed ; he was brcvcttod for this ex-1
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Ottawa Free Trader
Ottawa, Illinois, US
Fri, Jan 15, 1847
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