CiiAP. X. INSURRECTION OF PUMACAGUA. 171 



whole poiDulation of that city joined heart and soul in the 

 insurrection.** The brothers Angulo were men of low birth, 

 and vulgar both in their language and then- persons ; ^ but 

 Astete and Prado were gentlemen of good family and posi- 

 tion. It is possible that they made use of Pumacagua, as an 

 Indian cacique, that his countrymen might more readily be 

 induced to join theii* cause. 



Having occupied Cuzco, the insurgents divided their forces 

 into three divisions, which separated in different directions, to 

 excite the other provinces to revolt. Mariano Angulo, Bejar, 

 and Mendoza, Avho was nicknamed Santafecino, marched to 

 Guamanga, assaulted the house in which several Spaniards 

 had taken refuge, and hung two officers in the plaza. 

 Colonel Vicente Gonzalez was sent against them from 

 Lima, and attacked the insurgents, who had been joined by 

 a body of Morochuco Indians, near Guanta, in September. 

 The rebels were defeated, and several Morochuco Indians 

 were shot at Guamanga, but tlie country continued in a 

 disordered state until Santafecino was finally routed at 

 Matara in April 1815. 



Pinelo, and the cura of Munecas in Upper Peru, entered 

 Puno without resistance with another division on August 

 29th, advanced to La Paz, and took it by assault after a 

 siege of two days, on September 24th. 



The main di^dsion, led by Pumacagua in person, and 

 Vicente Angulo, marched on Ai-equipa. 



The position of the royalist army under Pezuela, with the 

 Buenos Ayrean army of independence in front, and this 

 formidable iusm-rection in the rear, was most critical : for the 

 Indians, believing that the rule of their Incas was to be 

 restored, and that Pumacagua would succeed where Tupac 



^ Confesion de Fumacagua. 

 ' Information from Gen. San Roman, who called tliem Fresaderos. 



