Scenarios

Battle of Ayacucho -  9th December, 1824

  Source: Historia de la Revolución Hispanoamericana (1830)

Guide to Map
A. Royalists positions in the night from 8 to 9
B. Preparatory maneuver for the royalist attack
C. March of battalions under colonel Rubín de Celis
D. Maneuver and attack of Monet division
E. Attack of Valdés’ vanguard over the house occupied by the independentists
F. Charge of royalist cavalry
M. and dispersion of Gerona battalions by the royalist reserve
K. Battalion Ferdinand VII, last royalist reserve

Order of Battle

United Army of Liberty – 5280 men

Commanding General Antonio Jose de Sucre

Cavalry Command – General Guillermo Miller

Chief of staff- General Agustin Gamarra

1^st Division  - General Jose Maria Cordoba – 2300 men

Bogota Battalion – Colonel Leon Gallindo – 600 men
Voltigeros Battalion – Lt. Colonel Pedro Guias – 500 men
Pichincha Battalion – Lt. Colonel Manuel Leon – 500 men
Caracas Battalion – Colonel Jose Leal – 500 men
Horse Grenadiers – Colonel Lucas Carvajal – 200 men in two squadrons

2^nd Division - General Jose La Mar – 1280 men

1^st Peruvian Battalion - Colonel Francisco de Paula Ortero –300 men

2^nd Peruvian Battalion – Lt. Colonel Ramón Gonzales – 300 men

3^rd Peruvian Battalion – Lt. Colonel Miguel Benavidea – 195 men

Peruvian Legion – Colonel Jose Maria Plaza - 270 men

Hussares de Junin – Colonel Isodoro Suarez – 200 men in two squadrons

3^rd Division - General Jacinto Lara – 1800 men

Rifles Battalion – Colonel Arturo Sandes - 533

Vencedor Battalion - Colonel Ignacio Luque - 533

Vargas Battalion – Lt. Colonel Trinidad Moran - 533

Colombian Hussars Colonel Laurencio Silva – 200 men in two squadrons

1 Artillery piece – 4lb Mountain gun

Spanish Royalist Army – 8475 men*

Commanding  Viceroy Jose de La Serna

Cavalry Command – Brigadier Valentin Ferraz

Artillery Command – Brigadier Cancho

Chief of staff- Lt. General Jose de Caternac

Vanguard Division - General Jeronimo Valdez - 2063 men

Cantabria Battalion – Colonel Antonio Tur -580 men

Centro Battalion – 464 men

Castro Battalion – 495 men

1^st Imperial Alexandro Battalion – 400 men

2 squadrons of Hussars of Fernando VII – 124 men

6 Artillery pieces

1^st Division - General Juan Antonio Monet – 2264 men

1^st Burgos Battalion – 540 men

Infante Battalion – 444 men

Victoria Battalion – 392 men

Guias Del General Battalion – 240 men

2^nd Battalion of the 1^st Regiment – 400 men

3 squadrons of the  Dragones de La Union cavalry regiment – 248 men

2^nd Division - General Alejandro Gonzales Villalobos – 1720 men

2^nd Burgos Battalion – 540 men

2^nd Imperial Alexandro Battalion – 400 men

1^st Battalion of the 1^st Regiment – 400 men

4 squadrons of the Granaderos de la Guardia – 380 men

Viceroy’s Guard – Viceroy Jose La Serna’s – 146 men

Alabardero guard squadron – 46 men

1 company of the Guias Del General – 100 men

5 Artillery pieces

Reserve Division - General Jose Carratalla –1182 men

Fernando VII Battalion – 196 men

1^st Gerona Battalion –   Colonel Cayetano Ameller - 450 men

2^nd Gerona Battalion – Colonel Domingo Echezarraga - 450 men

San Carlos Cavalry squadron – 86 men

* usually the histories of this battle give a figure of  9310 men  but when the list are counted fro the records the total with artillerist is 8475 men

Sources:

Ayacucho by Alfonso Maria Borrero – 1974

Las grandes battallas del Libertador by Jaime Auguilar Parades – 1980

El ejecito realista en la guerra de independencia – Julio Mario Luqui Lagleyze – 1995

Banderas Olvidadas: El ejercito realista en America - 1990