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Ainavillo
Ainavillo was the toqui of the Mapuche army that tried to stop Pedro de Valdivia from invading their lands in 1550. He lead about twenty thousand warriors in the the surprise night attack on Valdivia's camp in the Battle of Andalien. After his defeat in that battle he gathered more warriors for an attack on Valdivia's newly constucted fort of Concepcion at Penco. Leading an army of fourty to sixty thousand warriors in three bodies against the fort in the Battle of Penco. Ainavillo's command that had been previously defeated at Andalien, was recognized by Valdivia and picked out for a vigorous charge by all their cavalry following a softening up by volleys of their firearms. It was broken at the first onslaught and fled with the Spanish in pursuit, followed by the commands of the other Mapuche upon seeing the spectacle.
Sources
Geronimo de Vivar, Cronica y relacion copiosa y verdadera de los reinos de Chile (Chronicle and abundant and true relation of the kingdoms of Chile)ARTEHISTORIA REVISTA DIGITAL; Cronicas de America (on line in Spanish) Capitulos XCV and XCVII
Pedro Marino de Lobera, Cronica del Reino de Chile , escrita por el capitan Pedro Marino de Lobera....reducido a nuevo metodo y estilo por el Padre Bartolome de Escobar. Edicion digital a partir de Cronicas del Reino de Chile Madrid, Atlas, 1960, pp. 227-562, . Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (on line in Spanish) Capitulo XXXI
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