General Rea led guerrilla forces of the Light Corps in harassing American convoys on the National Road between Vera Cruz and Puebla from May 1847.
Due to this harassment by the guerrillas between Puebla and Vera Cruz, General Winfield Scott was forced to abandon his line of communications to make his attack on Mexico City.
Rea and Santa Anna failed to take it before the approach of a relief column from Vera Cruz under Brig.
The financial condition of the Republic still engages the attention of Congress, which body is yet occupied in arranging the interior and foreign debt.
General Joaquin Rea, living at a village called Minerva, was, about the same time, murdered by one Felipe Delgado, and a band of scoundrels under his command.