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Name: Cusco Revolt

Type: Event

Start: 1814 AD

End: 1815 AD

Parent: Peruvian War of Independence

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Was a revolt against Spanish rule in Cusco, Viceroyalty of Peru.

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  • August 1814: In 1814, the Agulo brothers, prominent Creoles, led a rebellion in Cusco against Spanish colonial rule. They formed the Junta of Cusco, establishing control over the territory and supporting the Peruvian Rebels in their fight for independence.
  • March 1815: Angulo, Béjar, Paz, and González, were leaders of a rebellion against Spanish colonial rule in Cusco, Peru. They were captured and executed on March 29, 1815, as part of the Crown's strategy to suppress dissent through public displays of punishment.
  • November 1814: Mateo Pumacahua was a Peruvian rebel leader who led the patriots to victory against the royalists in Apacheta, Arequipa on November 9, 1814. Following their success, the patriots entered Arequipa and placed it under the Government Junta of Cusco on November 24, 1814.
  • November 1814: To recapture La Paz, the Spanish royalists marched from Oruto with a royalist regiment equipped with 1,500 rifles, and many Indians, commanded by the Spanish general Juan Ramírez. They met outside La Paz on November 1, 1814, with the defeat of the patriots.
  • September 1814: The second patriot section was installed in Huamanga, under the command of Manual Hurtado de Mendoza and had for lieutenants José Gabriel Béjar and Mariano Angulo. Therefore Mendoza ordered to march on Huancayo, cities which they conquered peacefully.
  • September 1814: Battle of Huanta: the actions lasted three days, during which the Peruvian patriots retreated, abandoning Huamanga.
  • September 1814: The Agulo and Pumacahua brothers organized an army divided into three sections: the first was sent to Upper Peru, under the command of León Pinelo and the Argentine priest Ildefonso Muñecas, and entered La Paz with 500 rifles and 20,000 armed Indians, with stones and slingshots, on September 14, 1814. On September 24, 1814 of the same year they took La Paz.
  • November 1814: Upon being informed of the war measures ordered by the viceroy and knowing of the proximity of royalist troops, Pumacahua and Angulo decided to withdraw around Cuzco, leaving all the municipalities and occupied provinces free. An open town hall in Arequipa reconvened and hastened to accord allegiance to the king on November 30 , 1814 .

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