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
1st 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
2nd Division - General Jose La
Mar – 1280 men
1st Peruvian Battalion - Colonel
Francisco de Paula Ortero –300 men
2nd Peruvian Battalion – Lt.
Colonel Ramón Gonzales – 300 men
3rd 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
3rd 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
1st Imperial Alexandro Battalion
– 400 men
2 squadrons of Hussars of Fernando VII –
124 men
6 Artillery pieces
1st Division - General Juan
Antonio Monet – 2264 men
1st Burgos Battalion – 540 men
Infante Battalion – 444 men
Victoria Battalion – 392 men
Guias Del General Battalion – 240 men
2nd Battalion of the 1st
Regiment – 400 men
3 squadrons of the Dragones de La Union cavalry regiment – 248
men
2nd Division - General Alejandro
Gonzales Villalobos – 1720 men
2nd Burgos Battalion – 540 men
2nd Imperial Alexandro Battalion
– 400 men
1st Battalion of the 1st
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
1st Gerona Battalion – Colonel Cayetano Ameller - 450 men
2nd 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
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