 The troops occupied without resistance the village of San Carlos de Chiloé and then continued south and disembarked in the town of Dalcahue.The Chilean plan was to perform a pincer movement and head north to attack Ancud from Dalcahue while troops disembarked in the north of the island.The Chiloé royalists ambushed the Chileans in a glade and only after some hours could the Chileans retreat to Dalcahue and sail back to Chile.