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Carabobo
Carabobo
Urdaneta leaves Maracaibo via Coro and Carora, where he must stay for illness;
Bolivar begins the march in Barinas with direction to Guanare and San Carlos;
Paez left Achaguas, and after a most painful march to the control of 2,500 men
and driving 2,000 reserve horses and 4,000 steers to supply the army, arrived
in San Carlos on June 4.
Cruz Carrillo had a very important mission, the fun in the West, so he followed
the route Trujillo-Carache-El Tocuyo-Qubor-Barquisimeto. His task was only to
prevent the royalist troops from attending to their own. Bermudez had the
same mission, who left Barcelona for the purpose of distracting the realists
from Caracas. It presented battle in El Calvario, and although it was defeated,
served for what was wanted, that is to say, to avoid the meeting of the great
mass of the realistic army in Carabobo.
On Sunday, June 24, 1821, at 12 noon, 4,079 realists faced against 6,500
patriots. Only about half of the troops were able to participate in the battle,
which ended in an hour. The division of Paez was practically the only one that
intervened, with its llaneros and the British Legion. Plaza and Cedeo died by
impetuosity, when the battle was already decided.
Bolivar led the patriot army and Miguel de la Torre the realist. Paez's feat was
so forceful that the Liberator promoted him to General-in-Chief on the same
battlefield.