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Title: Diaz, master of Mexico
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Creelman, James, 1859-1915
Subjects: Díaz, Porfirio, 1830-1915
Publisher: New York, London, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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t structureoutside of the city on the Amozoc road. It was here thatthe French attack was expected. Diaz was placed incommand in order that he might be the first to meet theonset of the French veterans. The invaders attacked Puebla on the morning ofMay 5, 1862, with more than 5,000 men. Swinging off the Amozoc road, they unexpectedlyformed a line of battle facing the hills of Guadalupe andLoreto and opened fire with artillery, following up theattack with a strong infantry column, which chargedagainst the hills. At this, General Zaragoza sent thebrigades of Generals Berriozabal and Lamadrid to re-inforce the Mexican troops on the hills. The Frenchcolumn was exposed to the artillery fire of both theLoreto and Guadalupe forts and received a full volleyfrom Berriozabals brigade. The Mexican fire was soheavy that the French retreated in confusion, being at-tacked on their flank by the Vera Cruz battalion anda force of Puebla mountain Indians, still wearing theirpicturesque native dress. 144
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-1 J3 < .5 c 2 fa 3 ~ BATTLE OF THE FIFTH OF MAY The French general, who witnessed from his batteriesthe defeat of his first column, sent out a second column,which joined the first. The whole force advancedstraight against the hill of Guadalupe, and so gallantlydid they charge that they passed the moats at the footof the fort, and swarming up over each others shoul-ders, they attempted to scale the intrenchments. Sodetermined were the French to take the fort that theygrasped the projecting muzzles of the Mexican cannonas they pulled themselves upward. The Mexican artil-lerymen were without small arms, which had been dis-tributed among the infantry, but in that crisis they brokethe heads of the climbing invaders with gun swabs andlevers. Finally, under a concentrated Mexican fire, the twoFrench columns were driven down the hill in confusion.This was the republics first answer to the declarationof the Conservative traitors that the people of Mexicowould strew flowers before the feet

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