But as they chased the retreating soldiers and citizens of Guge up the passageways and tunnels to its summit, the Ladakhis found themselves sitting ducks.
The army reacted harshly to the debacle. They completely burned down the Espinosa's farmhouse and confiscated all of their belongings including their livestock.
It happened quite late in the day after there'd been a lot of noises off from some of the right of the party saying, you know, this is a rout, this is a purge of our folks.
They were also stopped by a fort built just days earlier On the high ground, in the centre of the Isthmus, and the Spanish held up their advance, this party trickled back defeated to the Caribbean coast.
Then in the course of a few days after the svb rout, its assets grew by $300bn—a by-product of the credit it had provided to banks through its discount window and other emergency operations.
Only after the bloodbath at the Battle of Cannae, in which the Romans attacked Hannibal and lost nearly their entire army in a horrific rout, did people finally begin to understand Fabius' wisdom.