[1] Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna mentioned that: The 3rd Cazadores del Rímac regiment consisted of 333 men, and its leader (Pedro José Sevilla), who had bravely fought in Casma and Ingavi, spent those hours as one of the hopes of honor of the Peru , as we have recalled on another occasion.

For his part, the commander of the Chilean force comments The presence of the enemy has not been long in coming, since at the moment when I was preparing to cool the backs of the horses by removing their saddles and feeding the troops, we were several shots were fired from a nearby dense forest.Sevilla then established an outpost in a dominant spot that was able to overlook the area from a higher ground.

When the Chilean infantrymen finally charged into the bushes where Colonel Joaquin Retes's montoneros and the 3rd Hunters del Rimac Regiment were taking cover, which in the act of seeing the enemy assault, retreated.

In Chilca , he knows that the Chileans are preparing to disembark, so he runs to the right to the town of Calango , 23 km from the coast, Valle de Mala , in search of the Cieneguillas road through the mountains.

horsemen and horses.After the Battle of El Manzano, Sevilla would be held prisoner until the end of the war and died on August 9, 1892, due to an outbreak of influenza at Lima.