In the years that followed, some 16,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been encamped temporarily along the Missouri River near Council Bluffs of The Indian Country competed their migrated to Deseret. Over time some 80,000 Latter-day Saints from Great Britain, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, and the South Sea Islands migrated to The Santa Fe Republic in the nineteenth century. Under the leadership of Brigham Young as many as four hundred separate communities in the Santa Fe Republic were founded in the nineteenth century by the Mormons. This settlement had been formed and grown mostly unnoticed by the distant ruling powers in Mexico city. With the arrival of the Juarista in Santa Fe, the leaders of Deseret realized the isolation the Saints had enjoyed would be coming to an end. President Young sent a delegation to Santa Fe with the goal of securing a peaceful arrangement with the former Mexican President become rebel leader, Benito Juárez. Juárez wishing to secure his flanks and looking for support from any source was more then willing to grant to the Deseret colony great leeway in directing their own affairs. This agreement was well received by the liberals of the Juarista congress.		In these early days of the Republic, the large rebel army was housed and feed by many of the preexisting Mormon towns. Despite the sharp cultural differences between the parties, the union of the two quickly formed a strong and stable republic. The Mormon Nauvoo Legion