Carabobo

Independence of South America

  • Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

    Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
    The first Junta de Buenos Aires, organized three military campaigns to subdue the Spanish forces in the interior.
  • Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

    A revolution spontaneously broke out in Asuncion, and the resulting government-held independent. This is how the Republic of Paraguay was created.
  • Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

    Colonel José Artigas commanded the revolutionary troops who
    defeated the royalists at the Battle of Las Piedras and besieged the walled Montevideo, where the viceregal government had moved.
  • New granada and Venezuela

    New granada and Venezuela
    In 1817, Bolívar, Piar, Páez, and other Venezuelan leaders reactivated the war.
  • New granada and Venezuela

    Bolivar faced and defeated Morillo in Calabozo, in 1818.
  • Independence of Chile

    Independence of Chile
    The six columns met less than a month later in the Aconcagua Valley and although it suffered a serious defeat in Cancha Rayada.
  • Independence of Chile

    Independence of Chile
    It triumphed in the decisive battle of Maipú (5-04-1818), assuring the independence of Chile.
  • New granada and Venezuela

    Bolívar crossed the Andes and defeated the royalists in the battle of Pantano de Vargas. Which sealed the independence of New Granada.
  • Perú

    San Martin sailed from Valparaíso with a fleet of eight warships and 16 transport ships, and 4,500 men from the armies of the Andes and Chile.
  • Perú

    It disembarked in Pisco (8-09-1820), and forced the realistic army to retreat towards the mountain range.
  • Independence of Ecuador

    Independence of Ecuador
    The Independence of Guayaquil was proclaimed.
  • New granada and Venezuela

    One more year of skirmishes and Morillo and Bolívar sign the War
    Regularization Treaty, which ends the "War to Death" period.
  • New granada and Venezuela

    A few months later, the royalist army was defeated in the battle of Carabobo, the final victory of Venezuela's independence.
  • Perú

    The uprising in favor of the independence of the Realista Regiment Numancia -integrated by Venezuelans and Quiteños - opened the doors of Lima to San Martin (July 5, 1821), and forced the viceroy La Serna to leave the city and enter the mountains, with an army still very numerous.
  • Perú

    San Martin declared independence and was appointed Protector of Peru with full civil and military authority.
  • Independence of Ecuador

    The arrival of the patriot army commanded by Antonio José de Sucre, and its triumph in Pichincha (24-05-1822)
  • Independence of Ecuador

    That Bolivar defeated the royalist pastures in the battle of Bomboná, and entered triumphant Quito.
  • San Martín and Bolivar

    San Martín and Bolivar
    Surprisingly, San Martin gave Bolivar the initiative of the war completely. He returned to Lima, resigned from the government of Perú.
  • San Martín and Bolivar

    San Martín returned to his home in Mendoza, Argentina.
  • San Martín and Bolivar

    Discouraged by the death of his wife and the internal fights between Unitarians and Federals, he emigrated to Europe, where he died in 1850.
  • Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay

    The Oriental Republic of Uruguay, fed up with its disappointments with the centralism of Buenos Aires, and after the War with Brazil, it would be established as an independent entity in 1828.