What the records say
- When
- 27 Oct 1810
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 20.82° S, 65.66° W
- Description
- 1810 engagement during the Argentine War of Independence
Battle of Cotagaita
The Battle of Cotagaita was fought on 27 October 1810 during the Campaign of Upper Peru in the Argentine War of Independence when the troops of the Army of the North were sent by the Primera Junta government in Buenos Aires to Upper Peru to fight the Royalists. It was the first skirmish of the Army of the North in this theatre.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en el Combate de Cotagaita (en el Alto Perú), los realistas derrotan a las fuerzas revolucionarias”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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