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in driving an equal number of their opponents into 
the woods. The stockades were afterwards razed to 
the ground, the guns thrown into the river, and the 
muskets and ammunition, thrown away by the retreat¬ 
ing Nicaraguans, destroyed. 
After this skirmish the force pushed on to San 
Carlos, a strong fort at the point where the Lake 
of Nicaragua discharges its waters into the San Juan; 
this place also was taken, and thus the entire control 
of the river obtained. From San Carlos to Granada 
is nearly 100 miles, and to the latter place, a city 
containing about 11,000 inhabitants, Captain Loch 
proceeded, with two boats, leaving the main body of 
his force at San Carlos. Commissioners were sent from 
Leon to treat with him, and these gentlemen finding 
that the Gordian knot of the difficulty had been effec¬ 
tually cut with the sword, quickly arranged the diffe¬ 
rences by a treaty so worded as to stop any further 
Filibuster attempt on Mosquito. 
This most successful expedition was carried through 
in thirty-five days. On the 8th of February, 1848, a 
month after the piratical attack of Nicaragua, the 
British force arrived at Grey town. On the 12 th, the 
Nicaraguan troops were overtaken and dispersed on 
•their own ground, and with such circumstances m 
their favour as ought to have enabled them to an¬ 
nihilate ten times the number of their pursuers. On 
the 19th, Fort San Carlos was taken, and on the fol¬ 
lowing day an officer was dispatched thence to Leon, 
the Capital of the State. On the 1st March that offi¬ 
cer returned to San Carlos, having performed his task 
