Four stout soldiers again took up the litera, and the party moved slowly along the aqueduct, toward the Garita Belen.
In two hours after leaving Chapultepec, the escort entered the Garita Belen, passed up the Paseo Nuevo, and halted in front of the Alameda.
Later in the day in reconnoitring I found a church off to the south of the road, which looked to me as if the belfry would command the ground back of the garita San Cosme.
That I'd stand him up against La Garita and make a sieve out of him," Beverly said, carelessly.
Scott's report offended Worth by saying that he did not pass the garita until Sept.
This met Duncan's battery and retreated; but Santa Anna, assured that on the next day there would be a rising en masse, erected a breastwork at the Peralvillo garita on the north side of the town, and waited.
General Pena, however, coming this way from Chapultepec, stopped at the parapet, and Rangel placed at the garitasuch troops as he could assemble.
Near the garita his forces were safely housed, and by way of "good-night" and good advice, Huger dropped a few shells in the vicinity of the palace.
Probably in order to occupy a place in the reports he appeared at the Belen garita at about four A.
About three miles toward the south from San Cosme, the western garita of Mexico, the traveller, passing the fortified hill of Chapultepec on the right, found himself at the genial suburb of Tacubaya.
The stampede from the garita seems to have been due in part to a cornet signal for retreat, meant for a single corps.
A garita had to be a somewhat formal place, for municipal duties were levied and collected there, and some accommodations for the officials and the guards were necessary.
Nothing further occurred, except arresting a couple of suspicious individuals on the road, and attended by the cavalry, we soon arrived at the Garita of Queretaro.
Then I doffed my sombrero to a gay young officer in advance of a well-appointed troop of cavalry, and, with horses white with foam, we dismounted at the outer garita of Guadalajara.
The women were, almost invariably, the vehicles for transmitting information concerning our designs in town, to their friends outside; among our multiform duties at the Garitawas that of opening all correspondence and perusing the contents.
After oracion had tolled, no person was permitted to enter or leave the Garita until sunrise, without the risk of a bullet in his body!
Meanwhile Worth had seized the causeway and aqueduct of San CosmA(C), while Quitman advanced by the other towards the garita of Belen.
North of San Lazaro strong works hemmed in the city to the garita of Peralvillo, and connected with defences and fortified houses reaching to the garita of Santiago.
We have already mentioned the garita or gate of San Lazaro, which was the entrance to the city by the main road from the east, passing the hill and fortification of El PeA+-on.
Those who were not killed or disabled by that fire seemed dazed for an instant; but in a few moments, they precipitately retreated, leaving the San Cosme Garita without a single defender in the works.
He received us both very kindly, expressed satisfaction with the manner in which the works at the Garita had been carried, and approved of all the dispositions that had been subsequently made of the troops at the front.
He had determined to attack either the San Antonio Garita or Chapultepec and the western gates.
Early on the morning of the 14th a white flag was displayed at the Garita de Belen, and General Quitman was requested to take possession, as the city had been evacuated by the Mexican army.
At some paces from the garita they mixed themselves up with the groups of Indians proceeding to market, so that it was easy for them to enter the city unnoticed.
The first beams of day were beginning to tinge the sky with opaline tints at the moment when the two horsemen reached the garita of San Antonio.
The iron men of Drum pushed it into the very teeth of the enemy's fire, and made it send forth an iron hail that drove the enemy from all his positions, even the garita itself.
At the garita Drum's battery and the Palmettoes were pushed forward under the guns of the citadel, and large numbers were uselessly sacrificed.
Our troops pressed in, driving the enemy before them and with little loss, and pressed forward to the batteries at the garita and in advance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "garita" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
