Columbus leaves Isabela with horsemen, war dogs and Guacanagarí to subdue Ayiti

Having, then, the people prepared and the rest necessary for war, the Admiral, taking with him don Bartolomé Colon, his brother, and King Guacanagarí (I was not able to learn what war people he took of his vassals), on the 24th of the month of March 1495 left la Isabela, and in two short days’ journeys, which are ten leagues as was said, entered the Vega, where many people had gathered, and they said that they believed there were over 100,000 men together. He divided the people he carried with his brother, the Adelantado, and they fell upon them from two sides, and loosing the crossbows and guns and the most savage dogs, and the impetuous power of those on horseback with their lances, and the foot soldiers with their swords, they broke them as if they had been a flock of birds; and among them they wrought no less havoc than in a fold of sheep penned in their enclosure. Great was the multitude of people whom the horsemen speared, and whom the rest, dogs and swords, tore to pieces; …