Victor Hugo wrote: "The man who has won the battle of Waterloo in defeat is not Napoleon, Wellington and retreating to the four and desperate at five, and Blucher not beat: the man who has won the Battle of Waterloo is Cambronne. "
Commenting on these statements of the author of Les Miserables, says an enlightened Argentina: "In the battle of Ayacucho can say the same. They were neither the English Canterac left lying on the battlefield who lost it. It was a saying who won. Who said it? A man whose age was hardly the revolution: a general twenty-five years: Cordova, in the most critical of the low stock of the horse and lifted his hat elastic at the tip of his sword, exclaiming, "Go ahead with step winners! ".
These beautiful Buenos Aires writer concepts have brought to mind an almost forgotten memory of something that when I was fifteen years old I heard refer to a veteran of the independence. That something is also a saying, a cry of a humble soldier, three words, uttered in a supreme moment saved after the debacles Moquegua Torata and the remains of the Peruvian army. Demos
form to memory, and save the historical oblivion the name of that brave. For the captain rang the bell metal glory, and if you ever rings for the poor soldier is ... with wooden bells.
On January 19, 1823 General Valdez, and yielded excellent military tactician, had attracted business by maneuvering the patriot army to the heights of Torata. After nine hours of stubborn fighting, in which the independents lost more than seven hundred men, had to undertake removal of Moquegua. General Alvarado camped there to reorganize its troops, but having received Valdez strengthening Canterac division, fell on the morning of 21 on Moquegua. The shortage of ammunition, the quarrels between the leaders, the influence on the morale of the soldier should have the contrast of 19, and most of all the ill-general provisions, resulted in another defeat for the Republicans. Reduced
patriots to 1500 men, more or less, began a disastrous retreat on the coast, pursued doggedly by the cocky winner. That's when Rosa and Taramona, these inseparable friends in the classroom and on the battlefield, as Lorenz says, imitating the heroism of Lieutenant Pringless and four grenadiers Fishermen in action, preferring to jump into the sea rather than surrender prisoners Olañeta troops. The 1500
scattered Alvarado, always closely pursued by the formidable royal army, and despaired of reaching the port of Ilo, where transferring to transport, saved from being victimized. Two hundred and twenty horse grenadiers, commanded by Commander Don Juan Lavalle, that lion unleashed, as he calls one of his biographers, whose achievements are worthy of the epic, is commissioned to protect a withdrawal that almost looked like a stampede in the I can.
The energetic Lavalle, if infants saw soon to be surrounded by the enemy, he threw his grenadiers, sword in hand, on the columns realistic, thus leading the Patriots to advance road. And these charges took four, leaving each with twenty or thirty men down, but always rejected if the object of the brave commander was achieved. The 1500 infants were even a mile away from his pursuers.
After the fourth attack, Lavalle told his people. One hundred and fifteen men! The others had fallen heroically.
And meanwhile the royalists, redoubling its efforts, managed to put a few blocks from the patriot infantry, that lack of gunpowder and organizational would have had to surrender. You could not even attempt a simulation of resistance to achieve capitulation.
Everything was lost. Lavalle
same hesitated for a new attack. Insurance was to carry a few brave sacrifice that accompanied it, no chance of that sacrifice saved the vanquished Torata and Moquegua.
was then, in that moment of supreme anguish, when a grenadier, called Seraphim Melvares, said:
- A Necochea here! Lavalle
could hear the cry of that brave, whose name has saved happily making tradition reach us, perhaps the considered a reproach that ever doubted his courage belied, and exalted replied: "Same
die a Lavalle know a Necochea. Charge, riot!
And it was so bold and impetuous onslaught, that unless the royal army so numerous, the triumphs of Moquegua Torata and defeat would have become.
existed between Lavalle and Necochea always emulating, chivalrous rivalry in which, vying for primacy those two gallant champions, was the cause of independence who gained the victory.
After the fifth charge, the English army stopped the persecution of patriots.
When Lavalle could tell his troops, only eighty-three of his grenadiers with him. On that memorable charge desperate and had lost thirty-two. Serafin
Melvares
The soldier was among the dead. Glory to His name! An exclamation of hers, a wrong sentence, three words that did not clearly express a thought, enough to save the remnants of an army which in 1824 was to strengthen Ayacucho in the field of freedom of a continent.
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