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Battle of San Mateo (1814)
| Battle of San Mateo | |||||||
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| Part of the Venezuelan War of Independence | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Antonio_Herrera_Toro_2012_001.jpg) Ricaurte en San Mateo, painting by Antonio Herrera Toro. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Bandera_de_la_Guerra_a_Muerte.svg){kind=small} Second Republic of Venezuela&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Flag_of_New_Granada_(1811-1814).svg){kind=small} New Granada |
 Spanish Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Simón Bolívar Vicente Campo Elías † Manuel Villapol † Antonio Ricaurte † |
José Tomás Boves Francisco Tomás Morales | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Crichfield: 1,500 infantry, 600 light cavalry.[1] Clodfelter: 2,000–2,500[2] |
Crichfield: 2,000 infantry 5,000 light cavalry[1] Clodfelter: 8,000–12,000[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Lecuna: 90 killed[3] Clodfelter: ~1,200 killed or wounded[2] Mosquera: 1,700 killed or wounded[4] |
Lecuna: 800–1,000 killed or wounded[3] Clodfelter: ~2,000 killed or wounded, 1,000 prisoners[2] | ||||||
The Battle of San Mateo was a serie of battles in the Valleys of Aragua in what is now Venezuela, during the Venezuelan War of Independence between 28 February and 25 March 1814.
- ^ a b Crichfield, George Washington (1908). American supremacy: the rise and progress of the Latin American republics and their relations to the United States under the Monroe doctrine. Tomo I. Brentano's, pp. 22.
- ^ a b c d Clodfelter, Micheal (2002). Warfare and armed conflicts: a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000 p.350
- ^ a b Lecuna, Vicente (1955). Bolívar y el arte militar formada sobre documentos: sin utilizar consejas ni versiones impropias. Nueva York: Colonial Press, pp. 41.
- ^ Mosquera, Tomás Cipriano de (2017). Memoria sobre la vida del General Simón Bolívar: Libertador de la Gran Colombia, Perú y Bolivia. Lima: Ediciones LAVP. Editado por Luis Villamarín, pp. 131. ISBN 9781542717526.
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