Battle of Salta

When

20 Feb 1813

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

24.73° S, 65.40° W

Description

1813 battle of the Argentine War of Independence

1813 battle of the Argentine War of Independence

The Battle of Salta took place on February 20, 1813, on the plains of Castañares, north of the present-day Argentine city of Salta, during the Argentine War of Independence. The Army of the North, under the command of general Manuel Belgrano, defeated for the second time the royalist troops of general Pío de Tristán, after their victory in the previous September at the Battle of Tucumán.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire décisive des Provinces-Unies du Río de la Plata sur l'armée royaliste à la bataille de Salta”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Manuel Belgrano derrota a los realistas al mando de Pío Tristán en la Batalla de Salta, dando comienzo a la segunda campaña al Alto Perú”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Argentine War of Independence1810 · War of independence