Historical event - Steemit Weekly contest / Battle of Carabobo / By @yolvijrm

A big greeting to all my fellow Stemians and those who live in this great community. Today I want to share with all of you my participation in this great contest, sponsored by @papimati, in which we are invited to describe a moment in the history of our country or culture; That is why today I want to talk to you about the battle that sealed the process of liberation of Venezuela from the Spanish tax, the battle of Carabobo.

The Battle of Carabobo was one of the main acts of arms of the war for the Independence of Venezuela; which occurred on June 24, 1821 and ended with a resounding patriot triumph and the collapse of the enemy forces. In this encounter two sides faced each other; on the one hand there was the patriot army, led by Simón Bolívar and José Antonio Páez, representing Gran Colombia, which had been established in 1819, during the Congress of Angostura; and on the other, the royalist army, commanded by Miguel de la Torre, who represented the Spanish colonial Empire.

The war between patriots and royalists had started in 1811 and had ceased with the signing of the Trujillo Armistice, in 1820, in which a cessation of hostilities was agreed for 6 months; However, the pact was broken earlier than planned, since on January 28, 1821, a patriotic uprising liberated Maracaibo and united it with Gran Colombia; This provoked the reaction of the royalists, who mobilized to attack the patriots. The clash between the two forces took place in the Savannah of Carabobo and the overwhelming patriot victory allowed Venezuela to be definitively liberated from Spanish rule.

The royalists managed to gather 4,000 soldiers, while the patriot side was made up of about 10,000 men. Before the fight began, Bolívar divided his forces into three corps; the first, commanded by José Antonio Páez, the second was led by Major General Manuel Cedeño, and the third was under the orders of Colonel Ambrosio Plaza.

The battle concluded with the withdrawal of the royalist army being pursued by the patriots to Valencia. It can be said that this victory began the path of independence from Spain, which was consolidated on July 24, 1823 with the Naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo and the taking of the fortresses of Puerto Cabello (where he had taken refuge part of the royalist army of Carabobo) later in the rest of the continent the battle of Ayacucho took place on December 9, 1924.

It can be said that the main causes of the battle of Carabobo were, in the first place, the signing of the Act of Independence, on July 5, 1811, in which it was established that Venezuela ceased to belong to the Spanish Empire and was constituted as sovereign and independent nation; on the other hand, the reaction of the Spanish colonial officials, who rejected the Independence of Venezuela and organized to suppress the independence movement and regain power; as well as the proclamation by Bolívar of the war to the death to all those who opposed the Independence of Venezuela. This proclamation took place on June 15, 1813, during the Admirable Campaign; and finally, the breaking of the terms of the aforementioned Armistice of Trujillo.

Among the main consequences of the battle of Carabobo, it is necessary to highlight the almost total annihilation of the Spanish army, which had 3,000 casualties among dead, wounded and prisoners. The patriots, on the other hand, only lost 300 men; In addition to this, this battle brought as a consequence the end of Spanish rule over the territory of Venezuela, thus ensuring its independence and its union with Greater Colombia.

On the other hand, there was a weakening of the position of the royalists in Latin America, since the defeat suffered in Carabobo encouraged the resistance of the Ecuadorian, Peruvian and high Peruvian patriots; Furthermore, the beginning of the Western Campaign, a military expedition commanded by Páez between 1821 and 1823, had the objective of eliminating the royalist forces that had been dispersed on the Caribbean coast of Colombia and northwestern Venezuela.

Finally, the victory in this battle allowed Bolívar to start the Campaign of the South that sought to liberate the territories of Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia from Spanish domination.

That is why it is one of the main and most important battles fought in our nation, the warlike encounter that marked a decisive step to achieve independence from Spanish rule.

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