The Real Beating of the Andes

In January 18 23, the last 17 hundred or so men remaining from san martin's liberating army were cornered by a royalist army that descended out of the mountains and crushed them all. This military disaster led to a political coup inside lima that gave rise to jose de la riva aguero. By the spring of 18 23, events were finally moving belivar down to peru. With posto and the surrounding countryside quiet and the rest of the cities in the region seemingly peaceful, bolivar felt like he could now really get the ball rolling. But it turned out the royalist rebels in posto had only been biding their time. As soon as