The United Liberation Army of Peru was at the Battle of Ayacucho leaded by General Antonio José de Sucre designated by Liberator Simón Bolívar. The patriotic army occupied the town of Quinua in the east and the royalist army the Cerro Condorcunca in the heights. Thereby the battles for Peru's independence ended with a military capitulation that would be transformed years later into a diplomatic treaty signed in Paris on August 14, 1879.Īfter the independentist victory of the Battle of Junín on August 6, 1824, the patriotic and royalist forces retreated to look for better positions by taking alternate routes in a southeastern direction until reached surrounding town of Quinua on December 6 and 8, respectively since they were determined to end the long war started militarily in Peru in 1818. The victory of independentist forces in charge of the United Liberation Army of Peru ends the Spanish colonial military presence in South America and consolidates the Independence of Peru, which had already been declared in Lima on Jby General José de San Martín. The battle took place at Pampa de Ayacucho, also known as Pampa de la Quinua (from quechua “quenua” related to a popular shrub in the area), located in the district of Quinua, department of Ayacucho, on December 9, 1824. The battle of Ayacucho (from quechua “corner of the dead”) was the last great confrontation within the land campaigns of the Spanish American Wars of Independence (1809-1826), where the countries under Spanish domination fought for their freedom in large confrontations.
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