Paz secretly evacuated Córdova, and, moving westward, hazarded a feat which is alone sufficient to establish his character as the best tactician of the New World,San Martin alone, perhaps, excepted.

But this conservative advocate of reform was not wily enough tactician for the times in which he lived, or the changes which he meditated.

Then again he fairly shocked them by making the organization non-sectarian, and securing one of the best tacticians in the city to instruct the boys in military science....