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 ERA OF CONSTITUTION MAKING -zi}, Encalada. During the progress of the combat an offi- cer named Florin, who was guarding Portales, com- pelled him to descend from his carriage when he shot him. Vidaurre and the other principal leaders of the riot were apprehended and shot. A second expedition sailed from Valparaiso in July destined for Ancon, where it landed, August 6th. Gen- erals Bulnes and Santa Cruz commanded the army num- bering about six thousand men. This was reinforced by disaffected Peruvians, under Gamarra, and then the Chileans advanced upon Lima. The Peruvian presi- dent, Orbegoso, was defeated at Portada de la Guia. General Bulnes was declared general-in-chief of the allies and the Peruvian general, Gamarra, director- general of the war. Santa Cruz, who had been some- what embarrassed by the defection of his ally, Orbe- goso, pushed forward toward the capital, while Bulnes retreated to Callejon de Huaylas. That the Peruvians did not instantly overwhelm the invaders is not strange, since there were now three factions of them contend- ing for supremacy, the Santa Cruz, Orbegoso and Ga- marra adherents, all determined to rule or ruin. After considerable manceuvering, the destruction of the fleet of the confederacy at Casma by Robert Sirrtp- son, one of Lord Cochrane's old officers, and one severe skirmish on January 6th, 1838, the armies met at Yun- gay, January 20th. Here a sanguinary battle was fought, resulting in a complete victory for the allied Chilean and Peruvian armies, though they lost seven hundred men in killed and wounded. The confederation was broken up, and Gamarra, through Chilean influence, was made provisional president of Peru. Santa Cruz retired from the country and went abroad. Prieto and Portales had been successful in the war against Peru and Bolivia, they had administered the