One expedition sent against him resulted disastrously, owing to insufficient equipment, so a determined effort under M.G.Vallejo, who was now the commander-in-chief of the whole California army, was made.

May 29 he and his forces crossed the San Joaquin River on rafts, and arrived the next day at the scene of the former battle.

With taunts, yells of defiance, and a shower of arrows, Estanislas met the coming army, he and his forces hidden in the fancied security of an impenetrable forest.
Vallejo at once set men to work in different directions to fire the wood, which brought some of the Indians to the edge, where they were slain.

As evening came on, twenty-five men and an officer entered the wood and fought until dusk, retiring with three men wounded.

Next morning Vallejo, with thirty-seven soldiers, entered the wood, where he found pits, ditches, and barricades arranged with considerable skill.
Nothing but fire could have dislodged the enemy.