Qualla: Battle of Yaguachi https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Yaguachi https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi Battle of Yaguachi: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Caburca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Colonel Francisco Gonzalez was leading his Spanish Royalist column down a forest path so narrow his men could only march four abreast. It was the morning of August 19, 1821, and Gonzalez believed he was closing in on the flank of a Patriot army he had been ordered to destroy. What he did not know was that the Patriots had known he was coming for days. A young general named Antonio Jose de Sucre had built an espionage network that read Spanish plans almost as fast as they were drafted. At eleven o'clock that morning, a second Patriot general, Jose Mires, saw the Spanish column stretched thin in the trees and made a decision that saved the independence of Guayaquil.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/6px7-battle-of-yaguachi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Yaguachi: A Province That Declared Itself Free https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Arturoyerovi, CC BY-SA 4.0. In October 1820, the port city of Guayaquil did what most Spanish colonies had not yet dared to do: it declared independence outright, established the Free Province of Guayaquil, and raised an army. The new Patriot force marched north toward Quito, won the Battle of Camino Real, ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/6px7-battle-of-yaguachi-a-province-that-declared-itself-free.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Yaguachi: The Royalist Pincer https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Caburca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Spanish General Melchor Aymerich, commanding Royalist forces from Riobamba with 2,000 soldiers, planned a classic pincer. He would lead his main army west from Guaranda down to Babahoyo and pin Sucre against the coast. Meanwhile, Colonel Francisco Gonzalez would come down from th...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/6px7-battle-of-yaguachi-the-royalist-pincer.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Yaguachi: Eleven in the Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Caburca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Mires found Gonzalez's column stretched out on a narrow forest trail, four men across at most, picking its way through the mountain woods. The terrain that should have protected the Spanish instead trapped them. Mires saw what the moment demanded: attack now, before Gonzalez coul...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/6px7-battle-of-yaguachi-eleven-in-the-morning.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Yaguachi: The Ledger of Cone https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Caburca, CC BY-SA 4.0. When it was over, Gonzalez escaped with only 120 men. On the battlefield he left 400 dead and wounded, more than 500 prisoners, and a fortune in weapons, ammunition, and war supplies - which the Patriots immediately turned against the Spanish cause. The Patriots counted 20 dead a...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/p/x/7/battle-of-yaguachi-wp/6px7-battle-of-yaguachi-the-ledger-of-cone.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Yaguachi: The Road to Pichincha https://qualla.com/battle-of-yaguachi/ Photo credit Caburca, CC BY-SA 4.0. Yaguachi did not end the war in Ecuador. That would take until May 24, 1822, when Sucre would climb the slopes of Pichincha outside Quito and win the battle that finally freed the country. But without Yaguachi there would have been no Pichincha. Sucre's army survived intact, his ...

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