Crossword-Solution: MORELIA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

General Quiroga's division was withdrawn from San Luis and brought to Queretaro, while the veteran division of General Mendez, who had victoriously held Morelia and the Michoacan against the forces of Generals Regules and Corona, was likewise ordered, on February 13, to abandon that section of the country and to hasten to the Emperor's support.

Morelia is seen afar off in the lap of a broad rolling plain, her beautiful cathedral towers high above all the rest.

Morelia is celebrated for the purity of its atmosphere and the exceeding beauty of its sky; and this evening upheld its reputation.

Accompanied by several gentlemen of Morelia, who came early in the morning to see C---n, we set off for the warm baths of _Cuincho_; and as we rode along, the hill of _Las Bateas_ was pointed out to us, where, by order of the Curate Morelos, two hundred Spaniards were murdered in cold blood, to revenge the death of his friend, the Curate Matamoros, who was taken prisoner and shot by orders of Yturbide.

The appellation of Morelia, given to the city of Valladolid, keeps his name in remembrance, but her blood-stained mountain is a more lasting record of his cruelty.