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destroyed, seven only escaping to relate 

 their misfortunes. In this affair the captain 

 of the first company, Frederick Rush, killed 

 eleven with his own hands. This battalion 

 also had a share in a general action at Pi- 

 tayo, under General Valdez, where a divi- 

 sion of the enemy was also entirely routed, 

 and either taken prisoners or destroyed ; 

 as also in an unfortunate affair at Enoi, the 

 2d of February 1821, which was only lost 

 through the foolish eagerness of the com- 

 mander to decide the victory by charging 

 entrenchments with cavalry ; in this action 

 the commandant of the battalion, Lieute- 

 nant-Colonel Mackintosh, received a wound 

 in the left hand, and some Englishmen fell 

 into the hands of the enemy, and were in- 

 humanly murdered in the square at Pasto, 

 by being struck with axes on the back of 

 their heads. The battalion afterwards pro- 

 ceeded by sea to Guayaquil, and shared in 

 the action fought near that place by General 



