Zúñiga had ordered Don Francisco Romo de…

Zúñiga had ordered Don Francisco Romo de Uriza, a Spanish captain, to San Luis de Apalachee, where he had raised a force of about eight hundred Apalachee and Spanish from the surrounding mission communities. (Uriza's report has not been found, so a breakdown of his force is not presently known.)

Word of this had reached the Apalachicola community of Achita, where Carolina trader Anthony Dodsworth (referred to in Spanish documents as "Don Antonio") was meeting with the local tribes.

According to a report an native woman made to Manuel Solano, the deputy governor at San Luis, about four hundred warriors, principally Apalachicolas and Chiscas, went with Dodsworth, two other white men, and two blacks, to meet the Uriza's force.

They leave Achita on roughly October 7, the same day Uriza leaves Apalachee.

The exact date of the battle is unknown; the woman reporting to Solana saw the battlefield on October 18, the day Uriza and the remnants of his force returned to the Apalachee town of Bacacua Dodsworth assembles his force, which numbers about five hundred, with the blessing of the Apalachicola chief Emperor Brim.

The two forces meet near the Flint River when the Apalachee make a predawn attack on the Apalachicola camp.

Anticipating the possibility of this sort of attack, Dodsworth and the Apalachicolas have arranged their blankets to appear occupied and concealed themselves near the camp.

When the Apalachee attack the false camp, the Apalachicolas fall upon them.

With the superiority of their weapons, the British-supported natives rout the Spanish force.

Uriza is reported to have only three hundred men when he returned to Apalachee.