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Battle of La Victoria
Part of the Venezuelan War of Independence
Date 20 and 29 June 1812 Location La Victoria, Venezuela10°13′40″N 67°20′01″W / 10.22778°N 67.33361°W / 10.22778; -67.33361 Result Tactical Venezuelan victory Strategic Royalists victory
Belligerents
Venezuela	Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Francisco de Miranda	Domingo de Monteverde
Strength
5,000	3,000

The Battle of La Victoria occurred on 20 and 29 June 1812, in La Victoria, Venezuela.

The battle

Both Spanish assaults on 20 and 29 June on the city of La Victoria by captain Domingo de Monteverde against the forces of Francisco de Miranda were repulsed by the Venezuelan forces entrenched in the city and Monterverde fell back to San Mateo.

Meanwhile, in Puerto Cabello, the Spanish prisoners of war held there, took control of the San Felipe Castle and at the same time, a slave rebellion near Caracas broke out. This convinced Miranda that it would do more harm than good to continue the resistance.

Consequences

Miranda entered into negotiations with Monteverde and a ceasefire was signed on 25 July 1812. Monteverde did not honour the conditions of the ceasefire and several days later arrested many patriots who had been granted amnesty, including Francisco de Miranda, who would die in prison. The First Venezuelan Republic came to an end when Monteverde's forces entered Caracas on 1 August.

References

• La Independencia (Parte I), VenezuelaTuya —(in Spanish)
• Bosquejo de la historia militar de Venezuela en la guerra de su ..., Volume 1 by José de Austri p. 141-163

v t e 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	Military career of Simón Bolívar Ecuadorian War of Independence Venezuelan War of Independence
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	Antonio Nariño Benito Salas Vargas Joaquín Camacho Liborio Mejía José María Obando José Miguel Pey de Andrade Antonio Ricaurte Manuel Rodríguez Torices Francisco de Paula Santander
Venezuelan figures	Simón Bolívar Francisco de Miranda José Antonio Páez Manuel Piar José Félix Ribas Antonio José de Sucre Rafael Urdaneta Carlos Soublette Santiago Mariño Cristóbal Mendoza Mariano Montilla Pedro Camejo Juan Bautista Arismendi Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi Luis Brión José Antonio Anzoátegui
Other figures	José Tomás Boves Louis-Michel Aury Juan Manuel Cajigal Juan Domingo de Monteverde Pablo Morillo Daniel Florence O'Leary José Prudencio Padilla Miguel de la Torre
Other	Carmañola Americana (1797) Decree of War to the Death (1813)

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