Battle of Pequereque
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The Battle of Pequereque was a clash which took place on 19 June 1813, during the second Upper Peru campaign of the Argentine War of Independence, between scouting forces of the United Provinces Army
Colonel Cornelio Zelaya
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El Congreso de Tucumán 1816 Francisco Fortuny
Army of the North
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The Army of the North, contemporaneously called Army of Peru, was one of the armies deployed by the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in the Spanish American wars of independence. Its objective
Battle of Pequereque
…took place on 19 June 1813, during the second Upper Peru campaign of the Argentine War of Independence, between scouting forces of the United Provinces Army of the North and the royalist Army of Peru. The republican cavalry of the Army of the North, led by Colonel Cornelio Zelaya, prevailed over the royalists, under the…
Manuel Belgrano, one of the main revolutionary leaders, was a lawyer and economist; had to improvise himself as a soldier to take charge of the independentist armies sent to Paraguay and Upper Peru. Statue in Plaza de Mayo (Buenos Aires)
Juan Ramírez Orozco