This is not the battle with Barrios and the miners just described, but the "fight," such as it was, against the rioters that Decoud described in his letter. This is a classic instance of how Mitchell's official history tidies up, organizes, and as it were replaces Decoud's account. In Decoud's, the concept of "Gamacho's Nationals" didn't exist -- the opponent was the looting mob chased off from the harbor, and it was only "late in the afternoon" when Gamacho and Fuentes appeared, "putting themselves at the head of it."