José María Cabal Carlos de Montúfar Manuel Roergas Serviez Liborio Mejía José María Córdova
Aparicio Vidaurrázaga Francisco Soriano † Joaquín de Paz †
Strength
1,200
2,100
Casualties and losses
49 dead 121 wounded
315 dead 500 captured
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Colombian War of Independence
First Republic of New Granada (1810-1816)
Bajo Palacé
Iscuandé
La Ladera
Sabanas
Magdalena campaign
Carrillo
Admirable
Civil War
Nariño's Campaign
Enmedio
Palo River
Tolú
Spanish reconquest (1815-16)
Cartagena (1815)
Cachirí
Cancán
Cuchilla del Tambo
La Plata
New Granada resistance (1816-1819)
Guasdualito
El Yagual
Achaguas
Chocontá
Pienta
Bolívar's campaign (1819)
Paya
Corrales
Gameza and Topaga
Vargas Swamp
Boyaca
River and naval campaign (1819-1821)
Riohacha
Chorros Blancos
Laguna Salada
Tenerife
Cartagena (1820-21)
Fundación
Ciénaga
Pasto Campaign (1822-1825)
Bomboná
First Taindalá
Second Taindalá
Catambuco
Ibarra
Pasto
Calvario
Mapachico
Barbacoas
Sucumbíos
The Battle of the Palo River (Spanish: Batalla del río Palo) fought on July 5, 1815 was a battle of the Colombian War of Independence. It was fought between the army of the south of the United Provinces of New Granada and the Spanish Royalist army of Quito.
After the failure of Nariño’s southern campaign in 1814, the remnants of the Patriot army withdrew to Popayán which was by then under the command of colonel Jose Maria Cabal. The victorious Royalists, now under Lieutenant Colonel Aparicio Vidaurrázaga, went on a counter offensive in late December of 1814 and captured the city of Popayán on December 29, 1814. They looked to invade the Cauca Valley where the patriots had retreated, and if successful reconquer the rest of New Granada. Cabal, brigadier general by then, placed his forces on the north bank of the Palo River where he had led his enemy to. This happened after a series of retreating skirmishes by his vanguard.
The battle was a decisive victory and one of the most important battles of the Colombian war of independence. The victory at Palo River allowed the patriots to recapture Popayán and push the royalists back to Pasto. For the next year the Cauca province was free of royalist presence until June 1816 when the royalists conducted an offensive in tandem with Pablo Morillo’s expeditionary army from Spain coming from the north.[1]
^Riaño, C. (1967) «La batalla del río Palo», Revista de las Fuerzas Armadas, (45), pp. 361–391. doi: 10.25062/0120-0631.2912.
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