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CommentarieJ'.
Lopez
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Cuniga
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thefe five.Captains with their Enfigns marched on the lt!ft Wing
and in the Van
~f
all about twenty paces difiant fr?m the refi of t-!-ie
Squadr~m.
Thefe were
immedia~ely
followed by eleven Files pf the chpicefi men m the
Squadron,
in
nature of a Forlorne Hope: After thefe came
t~e Enfi~n-be~rers
carrying their
olour~ ,
and then followed the Lances and P1.kernen mterlmed
with the Mufqueriers.
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The rignt yYing
of
the Infantry was
f~pported.
wich three Troops of Horfe,.
whpfe Captains names were
Pedro de
!01 R101
a Nauve of
Cord ua,
and
of
as noble
defcent as any in chat City, a!fo
Antonio
de
z:1:oa
bar~
at
Carceres,
a Gentleman o(
a very ancient Family, and with them was JO.med
Dugo
Alvarez.,
born at
Almendral,
who carried the Royal Standard.
Diego Centeno
being theh fick was not amongll:
the Troops, nor prefent in the Battel, but was carried up and down in
a·
Chair
giving orders and direetions. This quadron, conlill:ing of a hundred and .fixty
Horfe, wa5 commaoded co charge the left Wing of the Enemy: likewife
Cent eno
flanked the left Wing of his Foot .with ninety
f~ven
Horfe which belonged
to
Arequ'epa
and to che City of
Plate,
whofe Captains were
Alonfo
de
Mendofa
and
{eronimo.'d.e
Pi!legM,
and all comrnandeq by the !vfajor-General
L uys de
Ri6era;
and
the
Serj~ant-Majo~:ofithis
Army was
Luy1
Ga'l'Cia
de
Sant M11PJei.
.
On
the other fide the Lieutenant-General
Prt1.ncifco de
Carvajal
formed his Squa–
dron with the flower and choicefi men -of the
Militia
of
Peru;
and•
it
was pity
that fuch fiouc and excellen Souldiers did not take the right
fid~
and.employ
themfelves in fervice of .rhe King their Lord and Maner; this was thecauie which
moved Hifiorians
to
write with fuch defamation of a man
fo
experienced in War
that he knew to a point how many Lances were requifite to give check-mate to a
Party, and had as much advantage ove-r others in War as an expert Mafier at the
Game of Chefs hath over a young beginner or learner. Accordingly with great
art he drew up in
Battali~
his little Army of four hundred men upon the
Plains,
of
which eighty five were Horfe, fixty Pikes and Lances and about two hundred
and
fifi
y Fire-locks : howfoever
ma~y
Authours make
Pif arro
to have been of a
greater force, and
Centeno
of a far lefs ; perhaps to abate the glory of
Fr1mcifco
Car–
vajal
in
cafe he conquered
Centeno
;
but thefe W ricers underfiood not the Secret,
nor found out the true
cau[e
of the Vietory on one Jide, and the defeat of the
Qther> \ hich we {hall fpeedily relate.
Carvajal
drew up in admirable Order his fmall -Squadron in an open
Plain,
where were no l3ufhes, nor any thing elfe co hinder the fhot of his Harquebuliers:
the Captains of whith were
DiegoGHi/Len
and
'fohn
de
la Torre;
and
Carvajal
himfelf
commanded bi mvn Company compofed 0f fiouf
Souldi~r»,
and excellent Marks–
men. And though
{ohn
de
Acoff
a
commanded at that time a Troop of Horfe, yet
he changed that daywith CaP.tain
Guevara
for his Foot Company, befaufe
Guevara
. was lame and could not fight otherwi[e than on Horfe-back
:
chefe four wereCap–
tains of Foot, and
Hemando Bachicao
commanded fixty Lances and Pikes ; and both
Wing
Vt.
ere interlined with Harquebufiers on one fide and the other.
Am gfi the Captains ofHorfe
Gonf alo Pifarro
was b
ravely mounted and armed
"ith a good Coat ofMail, and over
it
a Coat of green
Velv.et,which
I
have feen
him wear, and over all he had a loofe Garment of crimfon Velvet flalhed ; on
each hand ofhim were
Licenciado Cepeda,
who was Captain of I-iorfe, and
Bachiller
Guevara.
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Francifco
d11
Carvajal
w:is Commander in Chief of this whole Squadron
of
Horfe
and pofied himfelf on the right Wing of the Foor, not exaetly joyning to them'
but advanced about fifty paces before, that the
Mufquetier~
might have the
mor~
roqm to
play
their <hot; for in them he·repofed his greate!l: a£furance ofVietory.
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Carvajal
was armed like a Commander of Horfe, with Coat ofMail, and Gant–
Ies anda Head-piece, which they call a Burgonnon, with a clofe Bever, furnHhed
w1th·fuch cro[sBars as they put upon the Hilts of t'Reir Swords; over thefe Arms
he wore a Coat of green Cloth, of
a
fad and deep colour, and he was mounted on
a common Pad, like a poor Souldier, not
to
be known. And in this manner were
his Troops ranged, whilfi he, to put them into good order, rode to the Front and
Rere, and was prefent in all parts and places to give his direltions and word of
command.
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Thus were both Armies drawn up, and at a dillance of about fix hundred pa–
ces faced each ocher. Thofe of
Centeno~s
fide remained
fo
confident of Vi?tory,
that when they went out of the
Camp,
they ordered
their
Indian
Servants
co pro-
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