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Royal
C01n1nentaries.
ters, fuffered their Fla ks of Powder to
be
wected \ itb
h~mging
in the\ 'a ter
~
but
others, more wary, carried their Po ·der and Mufquets on their heads.
Ca :
tain
Piedrahita,
feeing
Marlin de Robles
in fuch hafte and difo der co
ing
to attac
him, fallied out with g1eat courage, and gave
him
fu
b
a
volley of
fh
t
as
killed
bim feveral men ; which drove
him
and his men
back
again over the River •
with which
Piedrahita
returned ery gravely to his former pofi.
By
this time
t~
Captains
Martin
de
Olmos
and
zohn
Ramon
were come up near
to
the
Fort
of
Piedra–
hita,
who feeing how
HI
it had paffed with
Martin
de
Robles,
were defirous to
re–
pair the difgrace and recover the honour which the other had lofi : but the Ene–
my, being flefhed and encouraged with the late Cuccefs, received the
Alfai1ants
with the like Volley as they had done the others; and though the fight continu–
ed fome time, yet at length the Viet:ory inclined
to
Piedrahita,
and the contrary
party forced
co
retreat to
the
River, many of them being killed and wounded,
and many of them repafled it again. Captain
Piedrahita,
being gre.?tly animated
with
the
fuccefs of .chefe two eocounters, returned to his former fiation, to be
in
a readinefs co apply himfelf to thofe pares where neceffity mofi required.
ow
whilll: hefe two misfortunes had befaln the Marlbal, caufed by the hafiy precipi–
tation of
Martin de
Robles,
who would not attend the fignal of the
0
-fet, nor
the Orders given him ; the Captains and the other parties of Souldiers defcended
down to the River, and paifed it with extraordinary difficulty ;
for
in that part
the water was
fo
deep that the Infantry \\tetted both their Po der and their Muf.
quets, and the Pikemen lofi their Pikes in the fiream. Now the Mufquetiers of
Hernandez..
,
who, as we faid before, were lodged
in Am
bu
(hes,
covered
with
Rocks, Thickets and Caves bordering on the Banks, feeing with what difficulty
their Enemies were labouring to
pafs
the fiream, they a{failed them
within
the
water, and killed many of them
in
the River before they were able to pafs over;
for,
{hooting with their Mufquets on Refrs, they feldom failed to
hit
the
mark
at
which they aimed ; and fo many
~
ere killed and "ounded
both
in
that
P
fS
and in the Plain wh€!re they defigned
to
draw up,
that
they could not d"fpofe
their
Squadrons in the order intended.
The principal perfons killed were
[ohn de
Saavedr4,
the
Serjeant·Major,
YiD11:r1i–
cencio,
Gome~
d.e Alvarado,
Captain
Hernando,
Alvarez.. de
Toledo, Don
Ga11riel de G11:v–
man,
Diego
de
Vlloa,
Franci(co de
Barrientos
a
Citizen of
Cozco,
and
Simon Pinto
an
Enlign. The perfons wounded were
M artin de
Roble.s,
Captain
Manin
de Alarfon,
and
Gonfalo Silveftre,
of whom we have formerly made mention
at
large; and
1
00
loft
a Horfe that day killed under him, for which, two days before,
Martin de
Robles,
(to"
horn the Prefident had given a Revenue of forty thoufand pieces of
Eight a year) had offered the
furn
oft\.\ elve rhoufand Ducacs, and he refufed
to
accept it, having occafion of
a
good Horfe
at
thac time for this BatteL
We
have mentioned this paffage before in the fixteenth
Chapter
of the ninth Book of
the firfi Part of there Commentaries ; but not having fpecified their names in tha
place, it comes opportunely and to the purpofe to infert them here, and
to
de–
clare that
Gonf alo Silveftre
had his Leg broken with the fall of his Horfe, but by
the help of his
Indian,
who brought him another, though not fo good as the former
was
carried off, and condueted by him to
Huamanca,
where he ferved
him unrill
the end of the War with as much fidelicy and affeet:ion
as
if
he had been his
o n
Son. Befides rhefe perfons of note b fore named, fixty common Souldiers of
good efieem were killed like\ ife, who never came to dint of Si' ord, or pulh of
Pike, but were fhot and birded off at a difiance.
Thefe were the mofi remarkable paifages which happened in this Battel,
fo
what fucceeded afterwards was nothing but confulion and diforder; for the
grea–
tefi patt of the Marfhal's Souldiers refnfed
to
pafs the River, for they had
ha
enough of
the firfi:
day's SkirmHh, having tried the fmarmefs of the Enemy's
fire
i
the
fear and dread whereofremained on their fpirits
umill
the total defeat.
A certain Souldier, named
PeraleJ,
rev lted over to the Marfhal's fide, and de–
fired to have
a
Gun charged
to
fhoot
at
Hern11,ndez..,
for
he faid he knew
him
t.:\·elJ,
and had obferved the colour of
his
Clothes:
a
Gun
was
accordingly given him,
with which he made a !hot, and killed
{ohn Alonfa de Badajoz..,
whom ne mifrook ,
for
Hernande~,
who had the fame coloured Clothes, and
\Vas
much of the
fame
fhape and proportion with him. Howfoever he publickly praifed himfelf for
the fervice he had done; but when the Vietory appeared for
Hernande~,
he retur–
ned
to
him
again, and cold him,
that
he
had bee taken prifoner by
the
Enemy, b
up