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Often appears with: iztapalapan wound · garden of huaxtepec · courage and cowardice · cavalry charge · battle and tactics
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · reverence (1) · wonder (1)
At Huaxtepec Sandoval breaks a large Mexican force with cavalry charges, repels renewed assaults, thanks the Almighty, and Diaz notes he later visited the famed garden, injured earlier at Iztapalapan.
three or four prisoners, and lost Gonzalo Dominiguez, whose horse unfortunately stumbled and fell with its whole weight upon him, and he expired a few days after of the consequences. I particularly mention the loss of Dominiguez, because he was one of the most courageous men of our troops, and one of the best cavalry officers; and considered equally brave in battle as Oli and Sandoval. Every one of us deeply lamente…