First Battle of Tabasco - Battle

Battle

Commodore Matthew Perry led a detachment of 7 vessels along the southern coast of Tabasco state. Perry arrived at the Tabasco River (now known as the Grijalva River) on 22 October and seized the town of Frontera along with two of their ships. Leaving a small garrison, he advanced with his troops towards the town of San Juan Bautista (Villahermosa today). Perry arrived in the city of San Juan Bautista on 24 October, seizing five vessels Mexicans. Traconis Colonel Juan Bautista, Tabasco departmental commander at that time lacked the strength to fight against the invading forces, so that left the city, taking Perry Square. At night, the Mexican forces of Juan Bautista Traconis returned to the city, setting up barricades inside the buildings. Traconis received a commission of U.S. Marines exacted the surrender of the city, with the response received by Perry: "Tell the Commodore Perry who first shall die with my garrison before handing the square." Perry realized that the bombing of the city would be your only option to drive out the Mexican Army, and avoiding damage to the merchants of the city, withdrew its forces preparing them for the next day. On the morning of October 26, Perry's fleet prepared to start the attack on the city, the Mexican forces began firing at the American fleet. The U.S. bombing began to yield the square, the first shots being broken in the Headquarters flagpole, that same gender as the invasion fleet had been thought that given the surrender of the city, so they stopped the fire and sent a new commission to investigate, receiving the same answer and saying that it would fix the flagpole atop the tower of the Church, so that the fire continued till evening. Impotence before taking the square, Perry decided to leave and return to Frontier, where he established a naval blockade to prevent supplies of food and military supplies to the capital of the state.