José de San Martín Manuel Rodríguez had returned to Chile before the crossing, and began a guerrilla war in Santiago de Chile against the royalists, in support of the upcoming army. He was supported in the south of the city and the countryside. The strategy was to occupy nearby villages, seize the royalists' weapons and flee. The attacks on Melipilla and San Fernando, and a failed one at Curicó, demoralized the royalists. The columns that crossed the Andes began to take military actions. The column in the north led by Cabot defeated the royalists in Salala, seized Coquimbo and then Copiapó. In the south,
Valcău de Jos it in 1404. In 1665 the Ottoman army destroyed it and it was not rebuilt again. In 1910 the village had 900 residents, with a Romanian majority and a significant Hungarian minority. In 2002 the commune of which Valcău de Jos is the administrative center had 3302 inhabitants: 2909 Romanians, 287 Roma, 105 Hungarians, and one Slovak. "This article is based on a translation of the from the Hungarian Wikipedia on 22 February 2007". Valcău de Jos Valcău de Jos () is a commune in Sălaj County, Romania. It is composed of six villages: Lazuri ("Újvágás"), Preoteasa ("Füzespaptelek"), Ratovei ("Rátonbükk"),