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de la Pena, Pedro Bravo de Molina, valiant Diego Garcia de Paredes, 

 and Capt. Pedro Alonso Galeas, who was the principal instrument 

 of this victory ; he had come up from Peru and had left his company, 

 rousing and heartening all the country against the tyrant. With the 

 others whom I do not enumerate for fear of prolixity, there were 

 assembled 200 valiant soldiers, so that Gov. Pablo Collado was much 

 encouraged and arranged defense. 



1056. The corsair had 176 skillful harquebussiers, many small 

 pieces of artillery, munitions and other instruments of war, and 

 much baggage. Cruel, inhuman, and godless as he was, finding the 

 city of Barquisimeto deserted by its inhabitants, he stopped there, 

 and made Don Juan de Corella burn down the church in that city, 

 so as to have him as security, and committed a thousand other 

 abominations. 



1057. At that moment Gov. Pablo Collado appointed as General, 

 Marshal Gutierre de la Pefia, commanding the right wing of His 

 Majesty's army, with Pedro Bravo de Molina commanding the left ; 

 as Militia Captain, valiant Diego Garcia de Paredes, who held that 

 post in that country ; as Cavalry Captain, Diego Ruiz, the Governor's 

 Lieutenant General. 



1058. Before looking over the territory for giving battle when 

 the rebel appeared, the valiant Militia Captain Diego Garcia de 

 Paredes went out with 40 soldiers on a reconnoissance of the rebel's 

 forces. They took up their position where they could not be seen ; 

 and having reconnoitred the troop he was leading, he dashed down 

 with his 40 soldiers and engaged all the corsair's baggage, guns, and 

 munitions and other supplies which he was carrying, and cut them ofif. 

 That was the total ruin of the rebel and his men, and the preparation 

 for their destruction by His Majesty's army, and for the winning 

 of such a great victory. 



Chapter XXVHI 



How the Rebel's Army Was Broken up. Thanks to the Energy 

 and Circumspection of Valiant Diego Garcia de Paredes. 



1059. Now that Militia Captain Diego Garcia de Paredes with his 

 men had deprived the rebel of his baggage, munitions, and supplies, 

 he was forced to retire to a fort he had built in Barquisimeto. Find- 

 ing himself in need through lack of provisions, and being surrounded 

 by His Majesty's army, he sent 100 harquebussiers to find some 

 supplies for his men. This being learned by the sentinels of His 



