Anna. He received money for his campaign from María Petra Teruel de Velasco, wife of Antonio Velasco a passionate supporter of the movement, and who had to pawn some jewels in order to gather all the required funds. Iturbide was alerted of Bravo and Guerrero's whereabouts through the mayor of Mexicaltzingo, and promptly set a lieutenant colonel after them, but Bravo was able to evade capture by simply bribing him. Brigadier Armijo, commander of the South, however now went after them and a skirmish ensued in the vicinity of Almolonga, where they were then defeated. Guerrero was shot through the lungs and his men fled the scene in panic, in spite of Bravo's efforts to stop them, believing Guerrero to be dead. Bravo fled to the Santa Rosa ranch, and from here he sought to reorganize at the Mixteca region where he intended to join at Huajuapam with Antonio Leon. He fortified himself at a place called the Junta de los Rios. From there he headed towards Oaxaca after the after the pronouncement of Leon at Huajuapam. He set up a governing junta when he learned of the Plan of Casa Mata with which he did not appear to agree with agree with. With the troops that he was able to gather at Oaxaca, he headed out and entered the capital with the liberating army. Iturbide restored congress and offered his abdication. When congress decreed that Iturbide be moved to Tulancingo, he chose that Bravo escort him, asking him to take care of himself and his family, although it later seemed Iturbide lost his trust in Bravo as he asked his guards to keep a watch over him. First Republic After Iturbide was deposed, Bravo was made a member of the Supreme Executive Power, the triumvirate now serving as the executive. During this period he continued to pacify the country and carried out a victorious campaign in Jalisco against the Iturbidist General Quintanar. Vice-Presidency During the newly established First Mexican Republic, Bravo allied himself with the centralist party, preferring a strong unitary government for the country, and to which were also allied various conservative interests ranging from the remaining Spaniards in the country, to the aristocracy, to the clergy. Politics in Mexico at this time was associated with Masonic lodges, and the conservatives met within lodges of the Scottish Rite, consequently being known as the Escoceses and in which Bravo