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Corral and Gabino Gainza Fernández de Medrano departed from La Coruña, via Panama, Guayaquil, and Lima, and arrived in the Viceroyalty's capital in 1788, when Tupac Amaru had already been executed. He crossed the Isthmus of Panama , where, due to the rugged terrain and the insane nature of the country, according to his own words, he suffered ...
Gabino Gaínza had crossed over the Maule river with his forces, advancing northwards. O' Higgins was unable to pursue him during the day, because of the size of the Royalist force. During the night, however, O' Higgins secretly made the crossing, marched rapidly to the north and placed himself at the site of Quechereguas, in between the ...
On 16 September 1810, criollo priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla issued the Cry of Dolores, a call for Mexican independence from the Spanish Empire.This began the Mexican War of Independence in New Spain, Spain's colony that encompassed modern-day Mexico, Central America, and the southwestern United States. [5]
Gabino Gaínza, the Royalist commander, sent Manuel Barañao with a vanguard of troops, some 400 strong, across the Itata river to prevent O'Higgins from reuniting his army with Mackenna's, resulting in the Battle of El Quilo.
The Act of Independence of Central America (Spanish: Acta de Independencia Centroamericana), also known as the Act of Independence of Guatemala, is the legal document by which the Provincial Council of the Province of Guatemala proclaimed the independence of Central America from the Spanish Empire and invited the other provinces of the Captaincy General of Guatemala [a] to send envoys to a ...
Clemente de Lantaño Pino (31 July 1774, Chillán Viejo, Ñuble, Chile - 10 May 1846) was a royalist military officer during the Chilean War of Independence. Later, during the Spanish reconquest , he changed sides and fought for independence against the royalist forces.
Gabino Ezeiza, nicknamed El Negro Ezeiza [2] (February 3, 1858 – October 12, 1916), was an Argentine musician. Ezeiza was one of the greatest performers in the art of the payada . He became renowned, both in his native land and in Uruguay , after a memorable encounter with Oriental payador Juan de Nava , who carried at the time a certain halo ...
El Grito de Lares In this Spanish name , the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Luzardo . Manuel Rojas Luzardo (c. 1831 – October 14, 1903) was a Puerto Rican-Venezuelan commander of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army and one of the main leaders of the Grito de Lares uprising against Spanish rule in ...