Battle of Urica

The Battle of Urica was a tactical action soldier of the War of Venezuelan Independence rid in the village of Urica (current state of Anzoátegui) on 5 December 1814, between the general in boss José Félix Ribas (by the republicans) and José Tomás Boves (by the realistic); and that had like final denouement the death of Boves.

Antecedents

Shortly after the battle of The Magueyes Bermúdez and the rests defeated of his army joined to Ribas in Maturín whereas Boves joined his troops to the rests of the strength of his lieutenant Francisco Tomás Moral, defeated in the Fourth Battle of Maturín, in Urica.

For this company explained Ribas with at least 2.000 men, at the head of those who found José Tadeo Monagas, Pedro Zaraza, Manuel Cedeño, Francisco Parejo and others. When arriving to the place of The Areo, proceeded Ribas to the training of 2 columns of cavalry of 180 men, which received the name of Rompelíneas, with Monagas and Zaraza of commanders. After effecting all the preparativos for the battle, the detachment patriot left during the night of the 4 to 5 December, to dawn in Urica in front of the realistic, deployed in three columns in a big savannah.

The battle

The hostilities were initiated by Boves, when it went out with his column to confront to which commanded the colonel Bermúdez, the one who could refuse the attack. This initial success of the patriots allowed to Ribas put to his men on line of battle and with them loaded against the realistic, those who answered with intense fire of artillery. In this moment, ordered Ribas that the columns rompelíneas undertook the attack against the right column enemy, which was executed successfully.

When Boves warned that his column had been wrapped, went out of his centre hastily with 400 riders to break the rows patriots, but perished in the crash.[1] The rest of the realistic strengths (centre and left), loaded against the republican line and wrapped it, and with this obtained the victory. The drops were numerous in both edicts.

Consequences

The death of Boves had a lot of consequences: it was sucedido by Francisco Tomás Moral but east to the little time left to the New Granada in the campaign of Morillo and in the long run the greater part of his men happened to defend the cause independentista headed by José Antonio Páez after the efforts of the creole elite to include to the popular mass to his cause against of the Spaniards.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rafael María Baralt & Ramón Díaz (1841).
  2. ↑ Cipriano Heredia S. "El "Taita" Chávez".

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