 Mérida and Campeche were forewarned of the impending attack; Montejo the Younger and his cousin were in Campeche.Montejo the Elder arrived in Mérida from Chiapas in December 1546, with reinforcements gathered from Champoton and Campeche.The rebellious eastern Maya were finally defeated in a single battle, in which twenty Spaniards and several hundred allied Maya were killed.