1824
The Battle of Ayacucho, painted by the Venezuelan artist Martín Tovar y Tovar.Image: Martín Tovar y Tovar · Public domainworld · Americas
Ayacucho ends Spanish rule in South America
On 9 December 1824 a republican army under Antonio José de Sucre, Simón Bolívar’s ablest lieutenant, destroyed the royalist forces of the viceroy José de la Serna on the plain of Quinua, high in the Peruvian Andes. Roughly 6,000 men — Venezuelans, Colombians, Argentines, Chileans and Peruvians — faced an army half as large again, with far more artillery. A cavalry charge led by the Colombian José María Córdova broke the royalist line, and the viceroy signed a capitulation the same day. The victory secured the independence of Peru and, with it, the end of Spanish power on the South American mainland.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Battle of Ayacucho ↗
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