His soldiers occupied the city of Matamoros, then Camargo (where the soldiery suffered the first of many problems with disease) and then proceeded south and besieged the city of Monterrey.
Njegovi vojnici okupirali su grad Matamoros, a zatim i Camargo (gdje su se prvi puta pojavili problemi s ozbiljnim bolestima) te nastavili prema jugu i opkolili grad Monterrey.