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The FRCA civil war .
The battle of Chiapas as it was called was a very bloody affair .About 5500 federal troops were fighting more than 900 militia and some rebel regulars supported by Iman's army of 2500 disgrunted Mexicans .
The federals made good use of their artillery but were no match for the numerical superiority and the few but excellent cannons brought by Iman from Mexico .
After the battle however Morazan ordered all the prisoners higher than the lowest rank to be slaughtered .He also took over all the cannons and horses that he could find and ordered his own men to have both of these instruments of war to be made fit or to taken apart or in the horses's case ..............shot .
With this victory ,Morazan's supporters in the republic itself began to rise ,but his supporters in Mexico dwindled .
But Santa Anna said in an interview to a Belgian war correspondent that "One more victory and the Mexicans will throng the streets in rebellion even as our victorious armies enter Mexico having subdued the conservatives in here" .
The federal troops next managed to catch the liberal army at Puerto Barrios ,however there ,the local people rebelled against central rule and with their support ,that battle was too .
Now Puerto Barrios was just a few miles from the capital and it frightened the president to think of its implications .
He tried to improve things one last time at the battle of San Pedro Sul ,but despite having an army of 8500 ,he lost a climatic and well planned battle to the liberals led by another general called Diego Vigil Cocaña(Whose portrait is given below) who had only 6000 troops but was a master tactician and had planned the battle on a ground where his light cavalry would be superior .
Finally after this battle ,the president found it more better to leave the capital and take Spanish help rather than to defend it .
Now viceroy Zaldua had prepared himself for such a scenario and not only did he welcome the FRCA president with open arms ,but also had an army ready for him .
Obviously though ,he had a few clauses .These will be discussed later .
The arrival of the Spanish ,while being extremely game changing ,did not seem so to most of the people of FRCA at that time .
They were happy in the thought that most of their fellowmen would defend the nation with pride along with the troops of the liberal leaders and those of Iman and Santa Anna .
They however appeared to have forgotten what had happened to the conservative president .
The Spanish plan was different ,they could spare only 6000 troops which where extremely more superior and well trained than any central american forces .
But they did not want a war of attrition which could help the numerical superiority of the Central American troops .
Their plan was to go straight for the capital at Guatemala .
But these plans somehow leaked and the Liberal troops caught them on difficult terrain at the battle of Sayaxche .
Now the liberals were more than 10000 and for the first time the Spanish troops wavered .
But the superiority of the Spanish army only got a larger and more glorious challenge to manifest itself .Its rifles made mincemeat of the liberal armies .
But the reader would do better to understand the shock by reading the statistics of the battle in a European newspaper .
Battle of Sayaxche .
26 June 1840.
Spanish army .
General Juan Almonte.
Army -5700 troops .
Casualties -900 men .
Central American rebel army .
General -Diego Vigil Cocaña .
Army -10200 troops.
Casualties -8600 men .
Many called it the most decisive battle in Latin American history .
The battle completely broke the back of the liberal troops .
Morazan and Cocana fled to Columbia ,Iman fled to Brazil while Santa Anna fled to Chile .
A local newspaper in Edinburgh had at the same time had an interview for an amateur cartoonist and while the father failed to make it ,his small son of six copied one of his father's entries for the interview that he had proposed to display but hadn't at the last moment .
The son's rendition was extremely funny and was supplied to a London paper by someone where the man (Who we mentioned earlier in Edinburgh) became famous and apart from this cartoon(The son's version) being published ,he also got a job .
Below is the son's funnier rendition which forced a smile on many European faces .
The battle of Chiapas as it was called was a very bloody affair .About 5500 federal troops were fighting more than 900 militia and some rebel regulars supported by Iman's army of 2500 disgrunted Mexicans .
The federals made good use of their artillery but were no match for the numerical superiority and the few but excellent cannons brought by Iman from Mexico .
After the battle however Morazan ordered all the prisoners higher than the lowest rank to be slaughtered .He also took over all the cannons and horses that he could find and ordered his own men to have both of these instruments of war to be made fit or to taken apart or in the horses's case ..............shot .
With this victory ,Morazan's supporters in the republic itself began to rise ,but his supporters in Mexico dwindled .
But Santa Anna said in an interview to a Belgian war correspondent that "One more victory and the Mexicans will throng the streets in rebellion even as our victorious armies enter Mexico having subdued the conservatives in here" .
The federal troops next managed to catch the liberal army at Puerto Barrios ,however there ,the local people rebelled against central rule and with their support ,that battle was too .
Now Puerto Barrios was just a few miles from the capital and it frightened the president to think of its implications .
He tried to improve things one last time at the battle of San Pedro Sul ,but despite having an army of 8500 ,he lost a climatic and well planned battle to the liberals led by another general called Diego Vigil Cocaña(Whose portrait is given below) who had only 6000 troops but was a master tactician and had planned the battle on a ground where his light cavalry would be superior .
Finally after this battle ,the president found it more better to leave the capital and take Spanish help rather than to defend it .
Now viceroy Zaldua had prepared himself for such a scenario and not only did he welcome the FRCA president with open arms ,but also had an army ready for him .
Obviously though ,he had a few clauses .These will be discussed later .
The arrival of the Spanish ,while being extremely game changing ,did not seem so to most of the people of FRCA at that time .
They were happy in the thought that most of their fellowmen would defend the nation with pride along with the troops of the liberal leaders and those of Iman and Santa Anna .
They however appeared to have forgotten what had happened to the conservative president .
The Spanish plan was different ,they could spare only 6000 troops which where extremely more superior and well trained than any central american forces .
But they did not want a war of attrition which could help the numerical superiority of the Central American troops .
Their plan was to go straight for the capital at Guatemala .
But these plans somehow leaked and the Liberal troops caught them on difficult terrain at the battle of Sayaxche .
Now the liberals were more than 10000 and for the first time the Spanish troops wavered .
But the superiority of the Spanish army only got a larger and more glorious challenge to manifest itself .Its rifles made mincemeat of the liberal armies .
But the reader would do better to understand the shock by reading the statistics of the battle in a European newspaper .
Battle of Sayaxche .
26 June 1840.
Spanish army .
General Juan Almonte.
Army -5700 troops .
Casualties -900 men .
Central American rebel army .
General -Diego Vigil Cocaña .
Army -10200 troops.
Casualties -8600 men .
Many called it the most decisive battle in Latin American history .
The battle completely broke the back of the liberal troops .
Morazan and Cocana fled to Columbia ,Iman fled to Brazil while Santa Anna fled to Chile .
A local newspaper in Edinburgh had at the same time had an interview for an amateur cartoonist and while the father failed to make it ,his small son of six copied one of his father's entries for the interview that he had proposed to display but hadn't at the last moment .
The son's rendition was extremely funny and was supplied to a London paper by someone where the man (Who we mentioned earlier in Edinburgh) became famous and apart from this cartoon(The son's version) being published ,he also got a job .
Below is the son's funnier rendition which forced a smile on many European faces .
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