One Hundred Years of Solitude

and in the midst of a storm of
contradictory rumors, Colonel
Aureliano Buendía and ten
trusted officers, among them
Colonel Roque Carnicero,
stealthily arrived in Macondo
after midnight, dismissed the
garrison, buried their
weapons, and destroyed their
records. By dawn they had
left town, along with Colonel
Gerineldo Márquez and his
five officers. It was such a
quick and secret operation