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De la Serna called San Martín to negotiate an end of hostilities. The result was the same than with Pezuela: De la Serna proposed to enact the 1812 Spanish constitution (Perú inside Spain), and San Martín demanded the independence of Peru (with an independent monarchy).
In later years, San Martín averred that he had sacrificed his career in Spain because he had responded to the call of his native land, and this is the view taken by Argentinian historians. Undoubtedly, peninsular Spanish prejudice against anyone born in the Indies must have rankled throughout his career in Spain and caused him to identify ...
This principle of political action seemed to bear fruit when, after nearly a year of waiting for public opinion to crystallize in his favor, San Martin was able in July, 1821 to occupy Lima, following its abandonment by Viceroy José de la Serna, and with the apparent backing of nearly all of the capital’s important citizens, to proclaim the ...
- Timothy E. Anna
- 1974
Aug 22, 2019 · Viceroy La Serna responded by moving the royalist army from Lima to the defensible port of Callao in July of 1821, basically abandoning the city of Lima to San Martín. The people of Lima, who feared an uprising by enslaved people and Indians more than they feared the army of Argentines and Chileans at their doorstep, invited San Martin into ...
José de San Martín, the ‘’El Libertador’’ of Argentina, Peru, and Chile, was a Spanish-Argentine general. He was instrumental in winning the independence of the southern and central parts of South America from the Spanish Empire.
Apr 2, 2014 · Argentine soldier, statesman, and national hero José de San Martín helped lead the revolutions against Spanish rule in Argentina, Chile and Peru.
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On February 12 he surprised and defeated the royalists at Casas de Chacabuco and took Santiago, where he refused the offer of the governorship of Chile in favour of O’Higgins (who became supreme director) because he did not wish to be diverted from his main objective, the capture of Lima.
