>Battle of Ayacucho, 1824
>The last 5,800 Peruvian Patriots vs 9,000 Spanish Royalists
>Spanish held high ground, all of their best officers on the field, viceroy of Peru as general
>Patriots diminished after weeks of being chased through mountains, no artillery, led by a young lieutenant
>Spanish began by pressing hard on Peruvians with cavalry, rushing down exposed slopes in disorganised battle formations
>Seeing this, cavalry general jumps off his horse, shoots it in the head, and tells his fellow officers to do the same: "there should be no opportunity to escape"
>He then ordered his men to pick up their lances, and stand firm against the next cavalry charge
>Not only did the patriot centre hold, they CHARGED UPHILL, decimating Spanish horses and rushing their artillery positions
>Uphill retreat of royalist troops lead to even more fatal confusion and dissaray
>Masses of Spanish infantrymen couldn't recapture the artillery, which were now being turned on them
>Royalist generals are being wounded and captured, Viceroy himself gets injured and surrenders
>Results: 1,900 Spanish dead and 2,500 POW vs 310 dead Peruvians
>End of Spanish presence in South America
>Spanish defeat so profound that returning officers are labelled "ayacuchos" by the public, who believe they lost deliberately.
Battle of Ayacucho, 1824
The initial armies were 8500 rebels and 9300 royalists. I'm not going to continue reading after that biased second line.
> 5800 peruvian patriots
Erm....most of them were colombians, then there were peruvians, chileans and argentinians. Probably a few brit officers too.
That's bredddy awesum. Wish I knew more details of the South American wars of independence desu. All I really know is that they happened, and then Gran Colombia was a dream too beautiful to last. (And that Brasil then started shitting on everyone.)
>someone who doesn't check the wikipedia source
and nothing of value was lost.
If you must trust wiki, the page gives 2 numbers, the 8500 patriot number is the initial army, before attrition from marching through the mountains. 5800 was the number of those who fought in Ayacucho, its says so in the source.
>things that never happened.jpg
t. someone who doesn't study south american history
t.someone that believes post Bolivarian propaganda
You guys have no national identity and tried to create it with these meme myths.
the Veeky Forums pastebin file has an entry on the wars of independence with all the important and most useful books on the subject
any national identity is myth