CAPTURE OF TAOS.
After Colonel Doniphan left Santa Fe, the Mexicans rose and killed Governor Bent and five other Americans. Other murders followed. The Mexicans collected a large army, and strongly fortified a village called Pueblo de Taos. Colonel Price, with four hundred and fifty men, after defeating a portion of the enemy, marched to attack Pueblo de Taos, on the 4th of February. The greater part of the enemy were posted in a stone church. Against this church, Colonel Price brought his guns to play, but could not reduce it. An assault was repulsed. But ladders being planted, the troops cut small holes with their axes and threw fire into the church. A breach was then made in its walls, and a storming party plunged through it to attack the enemy, who then fled. The Americans pursued and killed all they overtook. About one hundred and fifty Mexicans were killed. The next day, the survivors sued for mercy, and the insurrection was at an end.
TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELOS.