International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

No. 294. Mr. Nelson to Mr. Fish .

t, and active operations commenced on the 22d, when he marched to meet the insurgents at Ojueios. The rebel generals Guerra, Martinez, and Treviño did not await the attack, but made a rapid movement southward, closely followed by Rocha, and occupied Lagos, in Jalisco, on the 24th. General Sanchez Ochoa, who commanded at Lagos, fell back to the city of Leon. Rocha arrived at Lagos on the 25th, when the insurgents retired southward, but soon changed direction, and are now in full retreat upon Aguas Calientes and Zacatecas. General Rocha is to-day expected to arrive at Aguas Calientes, and will p…