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Commentarie1.
BooK
III.
CH AP.
XVII.
The Relation
of
the cruel
Batte!
of
Chupas
i.s
continued.
A difagreement am·ongft
the
People of
Almagro.
The
Vi8lory of
the
Governour
;
and the. Flight
of
Almagro.
J
•f
T
HE
Serjeant-Major,
and
the
other
'CaptaillS
of his Majeily,
oblerving
what
.
_
a Lane was made through their Squadron
by
the
Enemy,s
fhor, and that their
Foot was daunted therewith, they
prefendy
clapt within the void place, and cau.
fed their
ranks
to-
clofe up, and
w.ithU>ut
(lop or
a:ny
delay to make
up
directly
up..
on
the Enemy ;
and co have no caufe ,of retardmenc,
they
~efr.
and deferred all
their own train of
Artillery.
The Captains of
Almagro
not well confidering their
cafe and advantage, and. as cpeople not much ufed to fuch kind of emergenci
;
obferving
the
Enemy
to advance upon
them,
cried out with a loud voice,
Let
our Enemie1 gain honour
by
Qllr
cowardife,
they
fee
m
ft~nd
ftiO
M
not daring to
oppofe
them:
Let m
f'()
them, let
ml<>
them,
far
we
are
npt
afJ/e
.longer
to
end11re this affront.
Here- ,
·with
the~:forced
.Atmagro
to advance
with his
Squadron, and with
Co
little
confi–
deration, that they
.made
him to incerpofe
betwe·en
the Enemy and
his
own Can–
non; which when Serjeant·Major
Suare~
obferved,
he
w.ent to
Alm'itgro,
and
with
a.loud voice told him,
faying,
Sir, hAd.JoH
k...ept
the order which I direEfed; and hadfol–
lowed my counfel, you
had
been 1.1illoriom
;
/mt jince
.JOH-
tafe!
jo11r
rfae11furu from others,
JON
1f'ill
lofe
the
hono11r
of
thu
day
;
and
ftnce
your
LorJJbip
u
not
plea{ed ·to mak!
me
a
Conqne–
ro11r in
)OHr
Ca111p, 1
wia
m~k!
'lflJ 131aJ
to
it
on
the ftde
of
yo11r
Ene1m·e1.
And having re–
peated tbefe words, he
f
et Spurs to his Horfe, and paifed over to
rac1i
ck
Caftro,
adv"ifing
him
immediately
tQ
clofe with the
Enemy,
and co give them no time, for
that there was great diforder and confafion
in
their Counfels.
,
Vaca
tf
e Caftro
obferving
this
good advice which
S11are~
had given him,
com~
manded his Forces co march
diredly
up
in
face of che EI)emy;
wi~h
which
Francifco
de
Carvajal
w~s
fo encouraged, and aifured of vietory,
by
reafon of the
unskilfulneCs
of their Foes, that he threw off
his
Coat ofMale, and his Head-piece,
and cafr
them
on the ground, telling his Souldiers,
That
thl'J
fho11/d
not
he ajfrighteei
at the
Cannon;
for
that
if
he
who
wtU
as
fat
and
/Jig
a&
ttny
two of
them,
was
not
fe11.rf11/J
of "
them, much
lefs
ought
any
of
them
who
were h11t
ha!f the mtflrk. that he
wm.
At this time a certain Gentleman who was of Noble Blood, and rode with the
Horfe, obferving both Gdes
within
Mufquet-fhot, and
that
there was no other re–
medy but that he mufl: engage; he on a fudden paffed forth from the Squadron of
the Govemour, and faid,
Sirs, 1 declare
my
{elf
for
the
party of
Chili,
for
all
the
World k._no'WJ, that 1tt the
Batte!
of
Salinas
I was then
on
the fide
of
Almagro
the
Elder;
1tnd
fl
nce 1cannot
now
be
for
them,
there
u
no
reafon
h11t
that
I
jhoHld
ff
and nmter,
and
not be
again.ftthem.
Herewith he fallied out of his rank, and feparated himfelf at
fome difiance, where a certain Priefi remained called
Hernando
de
'L11111e,
who was
a Kinfrnan to that School-mafier of
Panama,
that was the Companion and
Affo..
date of
Almagro
and
Pifarro.
Wfth chis Priell: there was another Gentleman al–
fo,
who being fick, was excufed from the Fight
j
but the retreat of this
Gentle–
man was interpreted by all the Army to be an
effed
of down-right cowardife,
and that therefore he durfl: nor engage on either fide. The Harquebufiers of
ca..
jlro
de
P
aca
would
have fired upon him, but the ha
fie they
were in prevented
their intention
j
and when they undedl:ood the reafon for which
he
defired to
fiand a Neuter, they then were willing
to
[pare their !hot.
I had once an
ac–
quaintance
with him, and left him alive
ih
a certain City
of
Perlf,
when I departed
thence ; and I know and remember well his Name, though
I
think
fit
to conceal
it in this place, and onely recount the
fatt:
in general to the end, that fuch a piece
of cowardife
may
be hated and fcorned by all Perfons
of
Q[ality and W
orrby
Souldiers.
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