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I INTEHESTIHO FROM MEXICO.The Vert Crux correspondent of the Picayune, gives the fallowing account ofthe engagement ofKuniuijitU tIr'rom Puebla, the news ts of considerable interval, communicating the net*aiiWiolv tidings of (1m death uf Captain Samuel H. Walker, of the mounted rifles. He joined f£#n* Lan** with hit cow*maud «t Perote, and upon their arriv.W near Huania.uU, found that the place w»i occupied t»y Santa Anna and about fiiWn hundred men. Capt. Walk rcommtintliiig his own company and that of Capt. Lew in’ Louisiana Hanger*. (Mil 196 men) proceeded into thelwn jo advance, and finding the Mexicans prepared to receive them, Capt. talker gave the older to charge, and the l.mcrrs who did not 1 II beneath the lire id the rifLs and carbine*, fled. According U« account, Sunt* Anna, wh was but a short distance nff, used his woo ten pr p Her to good advantage, making another lt;■ ir*tcuh»u$ escape.fit t m ‘melee* Capt, Walker killed with his own hand* a young Mexican lane- r. Sktrraisl ing continued till they reached the pt-zs, where all Hed exceptthe father of t'-e )ounlt;* man who had f.dl u hy the hands of Captain Walker, j wlici Sealed himself behind a house until Capt. \V. approached, when lie sallied jout, lance in lianit, 'iiid made a desperate attack on Capt. W. to avenge Ins son.Capt. W. fir« d his revolver, but unfortunately missed hii aim, when the old man kilted him with his lance and fled, exclaiming lie had avenged the death ofUs on.Capt. Walker’s last words to his men were, “Although your captain lias fallen never surreuder, my boys ” As soon as Capt. Walker had fallen, Capt, Lewis took command of the battalion and or-t [ d« red the streets and other places to be j i scoured, which was imnuuiiutrly done,and hut a few moments elapsed ht fore the village was entirely clear uf the hostile portion of the inhabitants. Thelose of the American* I have not been able'to ate ruin, but il is very slight. That j of the Mexicans was severe, and an ofli- | , I per of C ‘pt. Lewis* company killed the . | i oiiitnai.dii.g mii ?*-r ot the lafiC’ rs in the j | * Charge. Two Frenchmen who Were well a efju rioted with the old Mexican W lio killed Capt W., related t» me the . circumstances connected with his death, I «s r« ceiled from both M«xic i»s and A* ; mericans who were on tin* «pot ‘J
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Prairie Du Chien Patriot
Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Nov 30, 1847
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