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Show 396 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY The captain-general divided his force into four parties. Captains Juan Olguin and Eusebio de Vargas, with forty men and one hundred Indians, under Bartolomé de Ojeda, took the long but easier trail that reaches the mesa from the southwest. This trail was used of an attack, and in this manner forty soldiers and the Indian allies appeared on top of the mesa in pM ladera y suvida de dha messa, yo dho Gounor &¢a, para si el enemigo 8? = penase por ella 6 bajada por dha banda qe es la ge tienen y asimismo para estar en dho puesto 4 socorrer los dhos referidos como el de la cauallada y te? , 96 Autos de Guerra, ete., fol. 91-92: “YY en esta disposizion se gerro y 8 dio asalto, de suerte ge el eiemigo se pusso en arma, haziendo su rresistenzaJ th ree. bane Sons ri o> bo ee a ++rast | be* SEboy asele Le ee * ‘ i Nee ge re ios . ‘2.7 dha y prinzipal de dha messa.’’ The Adjutant, Diego Barela, oceupied the foot of the northern trail, with ten soldiers. + Odie asimismo para el asalto por dho rumbo y el otro trozo con las eaualladas quedando asimismo © la is J ; *NT Kua-pa. S 39% Autos de Guerra del Ato de 1694, fol. 91: ‘*Y diessen el dicho asalto mientras al mismo tiempo la daua al Cappan y Cauo Roque Madrid por la suvida oa af 7. SOUT Twenty-one °° Indians pe "TAT fruitless, and by sunrise all was over. the different ascents to the Potrero. The camp of the Spaniards must have been below the present settlement in the Cafiada, probably near the ruins of okt the ee ees. C pe owe caused 7% itself UL pueblo LCL the SBVZVT.T before Kw arrival BIUBA their vii of AME news defenders on the parapets to scatter at once; some sped to the rescue of their homes and families, but the majority fled through the for est. Some resistance was still offered at the pueblo, but it was a The e the rear. e demonstrations some of the enemy were diverted to that side, when suddenly the SOTMUOUIAIO Potrero also made iecenggannnmaee by the enemy in bringing sheep and horses to the summit. Captain Roque Madrid, with another detachment, was to storm the Potrero in front. Adjutant Barela, with ten soldiers, guarded the third trail, which descends to the little stream in the Canada on the northern base of the cliff, while De Vargas personally took a position between the last two divisions, with only a small force of men. Captain Madrid had the difficult task, as the ascent from the east 1s very steep and over bare rocks. It was moonlight, and the enemy could inflict heavy loss by merely throwing stones upon the assailants.*** About two o’clock in the morning of the 17th the advance began from the east, while the body guided by Ojeda had already begun to creep up in silence, all unnoticed by the enemy. The force under Madrid, however, was soon discovered, the Indians making a stubborn resistance. The Spaniards slowly advanced, replying with slow musketry firing of the period to the showers of stones and arrows from above. The handful of men on the north side of the |