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.
[Illustration: TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO PUEBLO DE LOS ANGELOS.]