After the Occupation of Lima and the disastrous Battle of Miraflores, Colonel Andrés Avelino Cáceres would organize the Peruvian resistance to continue the fight against the Chilean Army.

[2] The next day, Major Cámus would reinforce Alcérreca with 100 soldiers as they were dispatched via train from Chosica to San Jerónimo where eight wounded from the battle would also arrive.

He would obtain his response by 8:45 PM that the Chileans had received three more wounded and the Peruvians had suffered enough casualties to withdraw from the town.

At eight o'clock at night, thirty carabinieri, crossing the rapid current of the Rimac, transported the rump to the opposite bank as many infantrymen who flanked the enemy position on the right side.

On April 12 and at 3 PM, the Chileans would abandon the place "after punishing the civilians of San Jerónimo, Cayagance, Santa Eulalia and the valley in between" according to Alcérreca's report.