La Independencia y la Contra Independencia del Perú

Abstract

This text deals with the military cost that the Independence of Peru demanded in the final stage of the decisive wars. On the one hand, the military cost of the counterrevolutionary campaigns that the royalists undertook from 1809 from the capital of the viceroyalty of Peru, towards the American periphery to appease the independence movements of Quito, La Paz, Chile and The Rio de la Plata (this is called counter-independence). On the other hand, it considers the military cost of the patriotic campaigns for the Independence of Peru, including the liberating currents that arrived from abroad. These expenses, as well as the resources obtained for the war, were external, of great sacrifices to achieve the victories in Junín and Ayacucho, until reaching the withdrawal of the last realistic bastion of the Real Felipe fortress in Callao, in 1826.