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ing.^[1] This insignificant loss in the achievement of so great a victory was due first of all to the accident, and secondly, to the superiority in arms and discipline of the royalists. Henceforth the royalist cause was for some time ascendent, but the principles of independence were too deeply rooted ever again to be wholly eradicated.

1. Id., ii. 364. Calleja says 50 killed and 125 wounded. Id., 359. Alaman erroneously gives the numbers as 41 killed and 71 wounded. Hist. Mej., ii. 129-30. Those given in the text are taken from the official returns.