due to the cruelty of the spanish, when frenchman dominique de gourgues came to revenge jean ribaut, olotoraca formed an alliance with him and led satouriona's 300 warriors against the spanish. olotaraca guided the french, conducted reconnaissance on the position of the spanish army, and, in the assault on the first fort, was also the first to mount the glacis. according to a narrative published in "the atlantic monthly" in 1864, "the light-limbed olotoraca bounded forward, ran up the glacis, leaped the unfinished ditch, and drove his pike through the spaniard from breast to back."