Battle of Alto de los Godos

Part of the Venezuelan War of Independence
(Military career of Simón Bolívar)

Date	25 May 1813
Location	Maturín, Venezuela
Result	Patriot victory

Belligerents

Venezuelan Patriots

Royalists

Commanders and leaders

Manuel Piar
José Tadeo Monagas
José Francisco de Azcúe
Andrés Rojas
Remigio Fuenmayor

Domingo de Monteverde

Strength

450 infantry
2 cannons

2,000

Casualties and losses

Unknown

27 officers dead
452 soldiers dead
50 wounded

Venezuelan War of Independence

First and Second Republics (1811-1814)
La Victoria (1812) Alto de los Godos Admirable Campaign Cúcuta Niquitao Los Horcones Taguanes Araure La Victoria (1814) San Mateo 1st Carabobo La Puerta
Spanish reconquest (1814-1816)
Aragua de Barcelona Urica Maturín Spanish reconquest (1815-16)
Stalemate (1816–1819)
Clarines 1st Angostura San Félix 2nd Angostura Matasiete
Bolívar's campaign (1819-1823)
Las Queseras del Medio Vargas Swamp Boyaca 2nd Carabobo Battle of Lake Maracaibo

The Battle of Alto de los Godos took place on 25 May 1813 in Maturín, Venezuela, in the Spanish colonial Viceroyalty of New Granada. It resulted in a patriot victory against the forces of Spanish general Domingo de Monteverde.

It was one of the five attempts by the royalists to regain control over the region and it is notable for its inclusion of women in combat, such as Juana Ramírez, who was also known as "The Advancer" (La Avanzadora).

Sources

Historia de la revolución de la República de Colombia en la América Meridional, Volumen 2 page 123, by José Manuel Restrepo

Gran Colombian independence

Background

Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717–1723), (1739-1819)
Captaincy General of Venezuela (1777–1821)
Peninsular War in Spain (1808–1814)

Overview

Political
history

Luz de América (1809)
First Republic of Venezuela (1810–12)
Colombian Declaration of Independence (1810)
Venezuelan Declaration of Independence (1811)
United Provinces of New Granada (1811–16)
Second Republic of Venezuela (1813–14)
Third Republic of Venezuela (1817–19)
Gran Colombia (1819–31) (Ecuador, 1830
Venezuela/Republic of New Granada, 1831)

Military
history

1812–16	La Victoria (June 1812) Magdalena campaign (1812-1813) Admirable Campaign (1813: Cúcuta, February 1813 Alto de los Godos, May 1813) Araure (December 1813) Spanish reconquest of New Granada (1815–16)
1819–23	Bolívar's campaign to liberate New Granada (1819–20: Las Queseras del Medio, April 1819 – Vargas Swamp, July 1819 – Boyacá, August 1819) Carabobo (June 1821) Lake Maracaibo (July 1823)

Colombian
figures

Venezuelan
figures

Other figures

Other

Carmañola Americana (1797)
Decree of War to the Death (1813)

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