Battle of Urica: Liberation Army demonstrated its determination to have a Free Homeland

The Battle of Urica was a military confrontation fought during the Venezuelan War of Independence in the town of Urica (present-day Anzoátegui state) on December 5, 1814, between the republican armies of General José Félix Ribas and the royalists of José Tomás Boves, ending with the victory of the forces liberating.

In the combat, the Liberation Army demonstrated its determination to have a free homeland and also had as its final outcome, the death of Boves. At one point, during the confrontation, Ribas ordered the Rompelíneas columns to charge against the enemy right, which was successfully executed. When Boves noticed that his spine had been shrouded, he sprang out of its center and perished in the crash.

After the victory won in Los Magüeyez, against Colonel José Francisco Bermúdez, José Tomás Boves went through Nuevo Mundo to Urica to meet with his second, Colonel Francisco Tomás Morales, who had marched to that area from Santa Rosa.

For his part, Bermúdez was returning to Maturín, where the general in chief José Félix Ribas ordered the execution of the offensive against the realists in Urica; an operation that had not been carried out due to Bermúdez's decision to go to Los Magüeyez against Boves.

Mazo News Team