Battle of Angol

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conflict=Battle of Angol
partof=Arauco War
date=March 25, 1564 [Lobera, Crónica del Reino de Chile, Capítulo XXII ]
place=Vicinity of Los Infantes, Chile
result= Spanish Victory
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commander2=
strength1= Sixty Spaniards (including 12 arqubusiers and a feild gun), 500 Indian auxiliaries [ Marmolejo, Historia..., Capítulo XLVI]
strength2= Four thousand warriors [ Marmolejo, Historia..., Capítulo XLVI, Lobera, Crónica..., Capítulo XXII, says 8,000 ]
casualties1= no dead, many wounded [ Marmolejo, Historia..., Capítulo XLVI]
casualties2= 1000 killed (including Illangulién), many more wounded and many captured [ Marmolejo, Historia..., Capítulo XLVI] |

In Los Infantes captain Lorenzo Bernal del Mercado had discovered that the rebels had constructed a pucará close by, establishing a blockade of the city. Lorenzo Bernal ordered a reconnaissance patrol and he observed that the natives under the toqui Illangulién had chosen an impregnable position in a marsh and chose to retire. Illangulién's troops then moved to a second position, nearer to Angol, to which captain Lorenzo Bernal responded with a new reconnaissance. Finding that this new position also was impregnable he again retired. Feeling victorious and believing the destruction of Angol was immanent, a Mapuche detachment located themselves in a third position awaiting reinforcements from their main body at the old position. This time, seeing their dangerous proximity to Los Infantes, captain Bernal chose to attack the position before more Mapuches arrived. In the battle the Spanish drove the Mapuche out of their pucara and pursued them down to the river bank and drove them into the river, where they were trapped and 1,000 Mapuches were killed including the toqui Illanguelén and many more were wounded or captured. Bernal ordered some of the captives killed and others lost hands or feet. When the news reached the rest of the Mapuche army coming to attack Angol they dispersed. [ Marmolejo, Historia..., Capítulo XLVI]

References

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* Alonso de Góngora Marmolejo, [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=1102&portal=157 Historia de Todas las Cosas que han Acaecido en el Reino de Chile y de los que lo han gobernado (1536-1575) (History of All the Things that Have happened in the Kingdom of Chile and of they that have governed it (1536-1575))] , Edición digital a partir de Crónicas del Reino de Chile, Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp.75-224, (on line in Spanish)
** [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/bameric/02582741011358306311291/p0000003.htm#I_47_ Capítulo XLVI De cómo se juntaron los indios de la comarca de Angol y vinieron sobre la ciudad por tres partes, y fueron desbaratados por el capitán Lorenzo Bernal]
* Pedro Mariño de Lobera, [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/13582842323460728544424/index.htm Crónica del Reino de Chile , escrita por el capitán Pedro Mariño de Lobera....reducido a nuevo método y estilo por el Padre Bartolomé de Escobar. Edición digital a partir de Crónicas del Reino de Chile Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp. 227-562, (Biblioteca de Autores Españoles ; 569-575).] Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (on line in Spanish)
** [http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/13582842323460728544424/p0000003.htm#I_86_ Capítulo XXII De cómo se despobló la casa fuerte de Arauco y de la victoria que el capitán Lorenzo Bernal alcanzó del general indio llamado Quiromanite en la ciudad de los Infantes]