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South america independence

  • 3 lost campaigns

    3 lost campaigns
    Meanwhile in Buenos Aires, a patriotic meeting was organized with three campaigns to get the Spanish out, unfortunately they were unsuccessful.
  • Striped Court battle

     Striped Court battle
    San Martín arrives in Chile, after a month with six troops decides to attack the royalists in the Aconcagua Valley, although he suffered a serious defeat at Cancha Rayada.
  • Federalists vs. Centralists

    Federalists vs. Centralists
    The federals sought the establishment of a federal republic and the unitarians wanted to maintain the centralist system inherited from the colonial administration. And during many confrontations, the idea and the federal government triumphed.
  • United Provinces of South America

    United Provinces of South America
    One of the greatest federalist initiatives was by General Jose de San Martin, who proclaimed the Congress of Tucumán, where the United Provinces of South America was formed.
  • San Martín leaves Chile and arrives in Peru

    San Martín leaves Chile and arrives in Peru
    Together with the supreme director of Chile and some pesos of Argentina, San Martin, he prepared his men and devised a plan to attack the Spaniards of Peru from the sea, he had 16 thousand men from the Andes and Chile, who embarked to Peru.
  • San Martín and Simón Bolívar

    San Martín and Simón Bolívar
    Simon Bolivar and San Martin are in Guayaquil, and they talk about the independence of Peru, San Martín gives Bolívar the initiative of the war and he returns to his home in Argentina.
    While Bolivar takes command of an expedition to Peru, he takes the royalists out of Peru.
  • Battle Junin

    Battle Junin
    Simón Bolívar continued the war for the liberation of Peru. The royalists were in the central highlands and in Upper Peru. I went there where, with a very good strategy, the patriots took the royalists by surprise and defeated them. Then Bolivar went to recover Peru and Sucre went to the battle of Ayacucho.
  • Battle Ayacucho

    Battle Ayacucho
    The royal army was defeated and definitively removed from America with the battle of Ayacucho. General Antonio Jose de Sucre and Jose Maria Cordova participated in this battle, who were the ones who commanded the patriot army, and they emerged triumphant.
    With this battle, the independence of Peru was officially declared.