Bayonets recovered from the battlefield of Mocopulli
Date
April 1, 1824
Location
Mocopulli, Chiloé Island 42°19′54″S73°42′29″W / 42.33167°S 73.70806°W / -42.33167; -73.70806
Result
Royalist victory, invasion aborted
Belligerents
Republic of Chile
Chiloé royalists
Commanders and leaders
Jorge Beauchef
José Rodríguez Ballesteros
Strength
~600
~1,000
Casualties and losses
~300 dead and wounded
~150 dead and wounded
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Chilean War of Independence
Patria Vieja (1812–1814)
1st Talcahuano
Linares
Yerbas Buenas
Valparaíso
1st San Carlos
1st La Frontera
2nd Talcahuano
Thomas
2nd San Carlos
1st Chillán
Aconcagua
1st Quirihue
Cauquenes
2nd La Frontera
Huilquilemu
Quilacoya
Florida
El Roble
Trancoyan
Cucha-Cucha
Penco
Gomero
1st Talca
El Quilo
Membrillar
Maule River north march
1st Cancha Rayada
1st Quechereguas
1st Concepción
Rancagua
Los Papeles
Reconquista (1815–1817)
Central Chile insurgency
Juncalito
Crossing of the Andes
Picheuta
Potrerillos
Guardia Vieja
Achupallas
Las Coimas
Cumpeo
Salala
Chacabuco
2nd Valparaíso
Patria Nueva (1817–1819)
Juan Fernández Islands
First southern campaign
1st Parral
Curapalihue
3rd La Frontera
Gavilán Hill
3rd Talcahuano
1st Carampangue
2nd Carampangue
2nd Chillán
Bustamante
3rd Valparaíso
Curaumilla
2nd Quechereguas
Illapel
2nd Talca
2nd Cancha Rayada
Maipú
Second southern campaign
2nd Parral
2nd Quirihue
3rd Chillán
Biobío River
Spanish South Sea expedition
Guerra a muerte (1819–c.1824/7/32)
Fort Santa Juana
Mesamávida
Los Ángeles
4th Chillán
Curalí
Posillas
Dolores
1st Quilmo
Curanilahue
Trilaleo
Hualqui
Talcamávida
Pileo
1st Yumbel
El Avellano
Fort San Pedro
3rd San Carlos
Monte Blanco
1st Araucanía
5th Talcahuano
2nd Quilmo
2nd Yumbel
Pangal
Tarpellanca
6th Talcahuano
Cocharcas
2nd Concepción
Chillán River
2nd Araucanía
3rd Araucanía
Arauco Bay
Vegas de Saldías
4th Araucanía
5th Araucanía
Coast of Arauco
Boroa
Alico
Laraquete
Panguilemu
Bureo
Pincheira brothers brigandage
Neuquén
Valdivia, Osorno and Chiloé (1820–1826)
Valdivia
Agüi
El Toro
Carelmapu
Mocopulli
San Carlos Bay
Pudeto
Bellavista
Relevant civil conflicts
Carrera uprising of 1814
Las Tres Acequias
Prieto brothers uprising of 1819
Osorno mutiny of 1821
Abdication of O'Higgins in 1823
Chiloé uprising in 1826
Campino uprising of 1827
External fronts
Aid expeditions to the Río de la Plata
Brown's privateer expedition to the Pacific
Chile privateers campaign
Grenadine coast
Cochrane campaign
Liberating Expedition of Peru
Benavente expedition to Peru
Coast of Cobija
Callao
The Battle of Mocopulli (Spanish: Batalla de Mocopulli) was fought on April 1 of 1824 as the culmination of a Chilean patriots invasion plan against royalist Chiloé. The battle concluded in a royalist victory that delayed the incorporation of Chiloé into Chile to 1826 when a new invasion was launched.
During all off the Chilean Independence War Chiloé Archipelago had remained under control of the royalist which enjoyed a wide support in the archipelago. In 1820 Lord Cochrane, with the newly created Chilean Navy, had disembarked William Miller in Chiloé to capture the island for Chile. Cochrane's hoped to repeat the success at Valdivia where he with only 350 men had captured the largest Spanish defensive complex in Chile. William Miller's 60-men strong expedition suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Agüi and had to retreat back to the ships. When Ramón Freire came to power as supreme director of Chile in 1823, one of his first actions was to plan the capture of Chiloé. Freire's invasion army crossed Chacao Channel in March 1824. The troops occupied without resistance the village of Chacao and then continued south and disembarked in the town of Dalcahue. The Chilean plan was to perform a pincer movement and head north to attack San Carlos de Chiloé (Ancud) from Dalcahue while troops disembarked in the north of the island. The Chiloé royalists ambushed the Chileans in a glade and only after some hours could the Chileans retreat to Dalcahue and sail back to Chile.
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