The Battle of Las Mercedes in July of 1958, they had Castro cornered. They could have killed him. They could have caught him. But Castro at that point asked for a ceasefire. For some reason, Batista granted him the ceasefire and he was able to escape the clutches of the Batista army. And at that point, he launches his own assault. On August 21, 1958, Castro starts coming out of the mountains and he starts to join with these other groups and starts taking towns one at a time.