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Rh want of arms rendered them incapable of making a stand. Shortly after five o'clock, Calleja encamped for the night on the hill of Valenciana.

The result of the day's fighting was the capture of twenty-two pieces of artillery, the dispersion of a body variously estimated at 10,000 to 70,000 Indians, and the investment of the city on the north and south. Of the number of revolutionists slain it is impossible to form any estimate with certainty. The ayuntamiento places it at 8,000, but this is doubtless an exaggeration, and Alaman's estimate of 1,500 is probably not wide of the mark. The loss on the side of the royalists was insignificant; according to Calleja's first report to the viceroy it was limited to four killed and seven wounded; the casualties in the column led by Flon raised the number of wounded to about a score, a convincing proof of the want of forethought displayed by the insurgent leaders in presuming that Calleja would necessarily march up the Marfil road, and in mounting their cannon so as to be immovably directed.

Had Allende been supported by Hidalgo and Iriarte, and had Calleja been assailed in the rear