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Royal

Commentaries.

BoóK

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rers, fuffered their Flasks of Powder

be we'cte<l wich hanging in che water';

bue orhers, more wary, carried rheir Powde( and Mufquecs on cheir heads; Cap–

rain

Piedrahita;

feeing

Martin de Robles

in fuch haíl:e and ciíorder coming

attack

him; fallied out wich g1eat courage, and gave him fuch a volley' of íhoc as killed

him feveral men; which drove him and his men. back again over die River;

with which

Piedrahita

retQTned very gravely tó his former poíl By chis ~me the

Captains

Mart;n de Olmos

'and

¡ohn Ramon

were come up near

the Fort df

Piedra–

hita

who feeing how

ill

ic haél· paífed with

Martin de ~obles,

w.ere.defimus to-,re–

pait che difgrace and recover the hon?ur which che ocher had _!oíl ;

ptit

,t~

_Ene–

my, being fleíhed and encouraged w1ch the late fuccefs, rece1ved che Aífa1lants

wich che like Volley as chey had done the others ; and though the fight concinu–

ed fome time, yec at length che Viétory inclined to

Piedrabita,

and che concrary

parcy forced

recrear ro che River, many of them being killed and wounded,

and manrof them.repaífed it again. Captain

Piedrahita,

being grearly animated

with the fuccefs of chefe cwo encounters, r.ecurned

bis former íration,

a readinefs to apply himfelf to chofe pares where néceffity moíl: required. Now

whilfr chefe two misformnes had befaln che Marfhal, caufed by che haíly precipi~.

racion of

Martin de Robles,

who would noc accend che Ggnal of che On-fet, nor

the Orders given him ; the Captains and che ocher parcies of Souldiers defcended

down to die River, and paífed it with extraordinary difficulty ; for in thac pare

che water was

deep chat

the

Infantry wetted boch their Powder and cheir Muf..

quecs, and the Pikemen loíl rheir Pikes in che füeam. Now che Mufqueciers of

HernandeZ,,

who, as we faid before, were lodged in Ambuíhes, covered with

Rocks, Thick~cs and Caves

borderi.ng

on the Banks, feeing with what difficulty

théir Enemies were labouring to pafs rhe fiream, they affailed chem wichio che

water, and kill~d many of them in che River befare chey were able to pafs ovér;

for, íhoocing with their Mufquets on Reíl:s, they feldom failed

hit che mark

at which they aimed ; and

many were killed and wounded borh in thac País

and in the Plain where they deGgned to draw up, that they coald not difpofe cheir

Squadrons in che arder incended.

The principal perfons kill'ed were

rohn de Saavedra,

the Serjeant-Major,

Pillavi–

cencio, Gome~ de A/varado,

Captain

Hernando, AlvareZ, de Toledo, Don Ga11riel de Gu~-

7!11tn, Diego de

V/loa,

Franci(co de Barrientos

a Citizen of

CoZ,co,

and

Simon Pinto

Enligo. The perfons wounded were

Martin de Rob/u,

Captain

lvfartin efe Alarfon,

and

Gontalo Silveftre,

of whom we have formerly made mencion at large; and

who

lofi a Horfe that day kille<l under him, for wbich, two days befare,

Martin de

Robles,

(co

whom che Prefident had given a Revenue of forcy thoufand pieces of

Eighc a year) had offered che fum of cwelve choufand Ducars, and he refufed to

it,

having occafion of a good Horfe ac that time for chis Batee!.

have mentioned chis paffage before in the fixteenth Chapter of che ninth Book of

the firfr Part ofthefe Commemaries ; bue not 'baving ípecified their names in chat

place, it comes opportunely and co che purpofe co infert them here, and to de–

clare that

Gonfalo Silveftre

had his Leg broken with che fall of his Horfe, but by

the help of bis

Jndian,

who brought him ·another, chough not fo good as che forrner,

was carried off, and conduéted by him to

Huamanca,

where he ferved him umill

the end of cheWar wich as much fidelity and affeétion as if he had been bis own

Son. Befides the(e perfons of note before narned, .fixcy common Souldiers of

good efieem were killed likewife, who never carne

dint of Sword, or puíh of

Pike, but were íhoc and birded offata diílance.

Thefe were che moíl: remarkable paffages which happened ih chis Battel, for

whac íucceeded afterwards was nothing bue confufion and diforder ; for che grea•

teíl: pare of che Maríhal's Souldiers refufed to país che River, for they had had

enough of che firíl: day's Skirmiíh, having tried che fmartnefs of che Enemy's fire;

rhe fear and dread whereofremained on their fpirits untill che total defeat.

. A certain Souldier, named

Perales,

revolced over to che Ma·rfhal's

fi.de,

and de–

fired co have'a Gun charged to íhoot at

HermmdeZ,,

for he faid he kne.y him well,

and had obferved the e0lour of his Clothes: a Gun was accordingly given him

wtth which he made a íhot, and killed'

7ohn Alonfo de BadajoZ,,

wbom he rnil10ok

for

Hernande~,

who had the fame coloured Clothes, and was rnuch of che farne

íhape and ·proportion wich him.' ·Howfoever he publickly praifed himíelf for

the fervice he had done; bue when the Viétory appeared for

Hernande,:,,

he retur–

ned to him agam, and told him, that he had been taken prifoner by the Enemy,.bm

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