........the beleaguered French garrison at Matehuala welcomed him. Shelby's adjutant, Maj. John Newman Edwards, later described the cavalry attack on Juarez's forces: "Shelby's charge was like a thunder-cloud. Nothing could live before the storm of its revolver bullets. Lurid, canopied in smoke-wreathes, pitiless, riding right onward." The Mexicans fled "in hopeless and helpless flight." Shelby and his men were fêted by the grateful French for three days.
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