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Updated: May 17, 2025
Captain Juan Pacho, who commanded the presidio of La Caldera in Don Juan Ronquillo's absence, having sent some soldiers to barter for wax, the Joloans maltreated them and killed two of them. Juan Pacho, with the intention of punishing this excess of the Joloans, went there in person with several boats and thirty soldiers.
The governor had already answered Don Joan Ronquillo's first despatch, as we have said above, when the second despatch arrived with news of the successes in Mindanao.
The Spanish garrison left in La Caldera, at the withdrawal of Don Joan Ronquillo's camp from the river of Mindanao, passed into command of Captain Villagra at the death of Captain Joan Pacho in Jolo, and was suffering for lack of provisions; for neither the people of the river could give them to the Spaniards, nor would the Joloans furnish any on account of the war declared upon them.
But what followed upon this gave them a colour to say, that he was forced away, and driven out. Swift. So he certainly was, both now and afterwards. Ibid. Burnet. None were killed, no houses burnt, nor were any robberies committed. Swift. Don Pedro de Ronquillo's house was plundered and pulled down; he was Spanish ambassador. Ibid. Burnet.
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