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Argentina
With Argentina free from Spanish control, San Martín organized the Army of the Andes, which against incredible odds, marched over the mountains and engaged the Spanish army on the coastal plain of Chile in 1817. San Martín’s brilliantly conceived campaign culminated in the Battle of Cochabamba on February 12, 1817, in which the Spanish forces were defeated. -
Birth
Jose de San Martin was born on February 25, 1778. He lived in Yapeyu, Argentina.Yapeyu is a town in the province of Corrientes, Argentina, in the San Martín Department. It is known country wide for having Jose De San Martin living in this town. -
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Military
Then he rose in the military. Performing the duties of a loyal subject of King Charles IV and his son Ferdinand VII. And distinguishing himself in the Peninsular War against the forces of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. May 2 1808 - April 17, 1814. -
Calvary Units
The junta put San Martín in charge of raising a cavalry unit that he used to defeat royalist Spanish troops. The junta was overthrown on October 8, 1812, by San Martín and others. -
Spanish Ships
By capturing Spanish ships, he created a Chilean navy to transport his army to Peru, where he successfully defeated the Spanish and occupied Lima. The royalists retreated to the interior, and San Martín was planning an expedition to attack them and liberate the entire state in 1822. But first he would meet with fellow liberator Bolívar. -
Protecting Peru
San Martín, in the role of protector of Peru, arrived in the harbor of Guayaquil in present-day Ecuador on July 25, 1822. He was welcomed by Bolívar and taken to a house where the two men talked privately. The next day they resumed their discussion in earnest. The meeting was followed by a banquet and ball from which San Martín quietly departed in the early hours of the morning and boarded his ship to sail back to Peru. -
Republication
The republics that were created from the territories liberated by Bolívar and San Martín were of particular interest to the United States from the outset. In 1823 President James Monroe, who was one of the founding fathers of the United States, put forth a U.S. principle of foreign policy known as the Monroe Doctrine. -
Death
Finally, Jose De San Martin died on August 17th, 1850. He lived a god life with his wife, Maria de Los Remedies de Escalate. And was a strong army general. And has a memorial for his great honor and remembrance. -
The meeting
Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar were two two of the most important leaders of the independence movement in Spanish america. The liberate several colonies from Spanish rule. During the 1900s. -
Voting
In Latin America in the early 2000s, the founders of the republics, Bolívar and San Martín, are evoked by left-wing and right-wing political parties. To justify their causes. In Venezuela President Hugo Chávez used the ghost of Bolívar to justify his left-wing policies.
