Sacrey's Triumph at Pichinica

The fall of quito was the great big domino the patriots hoped that it would be. The remaining royalists held cities in the region threw up their arms and said, forget it. We're done. As soon as they heard the capital had been taken, even the staunch holdouts in posto refused to just go down with the ship. Most of the soldiers elected to quit the country and go home. But more than a few walked across the lines. And for his part, sucre always gave believar full credit for the capture of quito.