🌎 Latin American Warshard
Battle of Pichincha
1822 CE · Quito, Ecuador
Quick Facts
- Year
- 1822 CE
- Location
- Quito, Ecuador
- Era
- 🌎 Latin American Wars
- Difficulty
- hard
Antonio Jose de Sucre led patriot forces up the slopes of the Pichincha volcano to attack Spanish royalist positions above Quito. Fighting in fog and thin mountain air at over 3,500 meters altitude, the patriots defeated the royalists and liberated the territory that would become Ecuador.
💡 Did you know?
The battle on Pichincha volcano was fought at an altitude where many soldiers from the coastal lowlands struggled to breathe. Sucre himself had to be helped up the final slopes.