First Intermedios campaign

First Intermedios campaign
Part of the Peruvian War of Independence

1839 map of the "Intermedios"
Date1822–1823
Location
The "Intermedios"
Result Royalist victory
Belligerents
Peru Spain
Commanders and leaders
Rudecindo Alvarado José de Canterac
Gerónimo Valdés
Units involved
United Liberating Army Royalist Army

The First Intermedios campaign (Spanish: Primera campaña de Intermedios), also known as the 1822 campaign of the Intermedios ports (Spanish: Campaña de los puertos intermedios de 1822), was a military expedition led by General Rudecindo Alvarado on behalf of the Peruvian Congress against the royalist forces stationed in the southern mountains of Peru.

The expedition had been planned by José de San Martín, but in his absence the execution failed, because the patriotic officers did not put the dynamism that the war actions required and also due to the quick reaction of the royalist leaders under the orders of viceroy José de la Serna, who, through forced marches through the Andes, managed to block the path to the United Liberating Army and triumphed in two consecutive battles: Torata and Moquegua (January 19 and 21, 1823).[1][2]

  1. ^ Miller, John (1828). Memoirs of General Miller: In the Service of the Republic of Peru. Vol. 2. London: Thomas Davison, Whitefriars. p. 66.
  2. ^ Scheina, Robert L (2003). Latin America's Wars: The Age of the Caudillo, 1791–1899. Dulles: Potomac Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-57488-450-0.