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SPANISH AAlEiUCA. 



upon the pretext, that the order had been 

 obtained by means of false representa- 

 tions ; but he soon afterwards gave up the 

 command. 



The army of Quito, commanded by Don 

 C. Montufar, was defeated by the royalist 

 forces from Cuenca ; and Don N. Montes, 

 who had succeeded Molina, entered Quito 

 on the 6th of November 1812, signalizing 

 his victory by the most horrid barbarities : 

 for, not content with the slaughter which 

 took place upon the entrance of the royalist 

 troops, he deliberately ordered one in every 

 five of the inhabitants who remained in the 

 city to be put to death ; a deed of cruelty 

 of which he boasted in a letter, written by 

 himself on the 1 1th of November to the 

 governor of Guayaquil. 



The command of the army was now given 

 by Montes to Don N. Samano, who marched 



