Captain Pedro Allande y Saabedra with a force of only fifteen men defeated an army of around 350 strong.

An Apache force, which Captain Allande estimated as 350 warriors, approached the Spanish post of Fort Tucson itself.

Allande cut off and brought back the head of a slain chieftain and carried it on a lance as a trophy.

After waving the head at the surviving Apaches they fled the battlefield, abandoning their plunder of stolen livestock.

The Spaniards reportedly killed and wounded several Apache men, including a brother of Chief Quilcho.