United Restoration Army

The United Restoration Army was the military body formed in 1837 by the alliance of the land and naval forces of the Republic of Chile and the Restoration Army of Peru, formed in 1836 by Peruvian soldiers opposed to the Peru-Bolivian Confederation. Manuel Bulnes Prieto was appointed as its general in chief.[1][2]

United Restoration Army
Ejército Unido Restaurador
Leaders
Dates of operation1837-1839
MotivesRestoration of a united Peruvian state
Allies Chile
Opponents Peru-Bolivia
North Peru
Battles and warsWar of the Confederation
Iquicha War of 1839
Dissolution of Peru-Bolivia:

Among its members were the North Peruvian military and politicians Antonio Gutiérrez de La Fuente and Ramón Castilla, among others, who were exiled in Chile. There were also General Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco, Andrés Martínez and the politician Felipe Pardo y Aliaga, who negotiated the deal with Chile to intervene in favor of the North-Peruvian State, joining forces in order to break the Confederation.[3] Likewise, former North Peruvian president Agustín Gamarra and his followers were also refugees, who finally formed the United Restoration Army in Chile. After the war, the military campaigns were paid by Peru to the government of Chile.[4]

The defeat of the Peru-Bolivian Confederation occurred in the town of Villa de Yungay, in the Department of Huaylas on January 20, 1839.[5] In commemoration of this victory, the Department of Huaylas took the name of the Department of Ancash, as it is known today.

Later the term was used again during the Peruvian revolutions where one of the parties called restoration to the cause they defended, such was the case of the revolution led by General Mariano Ignacio Prado in 1865.[6][7]

See also

References
  1. Villalobos Rivera, Sergio (2002). Del cerro Barón a Yungay. Chile y Perú. La historia que nos une y nos separa 1535-1883 (in Spanish). Santiago: Editorial Universitaria. p. 53. ISBN 978-956-11-1601-6.
  2. Documentos relativos a reclamos al gobierno del Perú sobre propiedades britanicas tomadas por autoridades peruanas, desde 1835 hasta 1839. Peru. 1840. pp. 72–73.
  3. Tamayo Herrera, José (1985). Nuevo Compendio de Historia del Perú. Editorial Lumen. pp. 255–256.
  4. Convención celebrada con el gobierno de Chile para el pago de la deuda peruana, de 11 de diciembre de 1849 (PDF). 1849. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27.
  5. Varas, José Antonio (1870). Recopilacion de leyes i decretos supremos concernientes al ejército, desde abril de 1812 a [diciembre de 1887] ...: Abril de 1812 a abril de 1839 (in Spanish). Santiago: Imprenta nacional. pp. 520–521.
  6. Dávalos y Lissón, Pedro (1926). "XIII: San Román y Pezet". La primera centuria: causas geográficas, políticas y económicas que han detenido el progreso moral y material del Perú en el primer siglo de su vida independiente (in Spanish). Vol. IV: Causas políticas y económicas. Lima: Librería e Imprenta Gil. p. 143.
  7. Peralta Ruiz, Victor (2018). Guerra internacional, revolución y dictadura: los partidos parlamentarios y la política peruana entre 1865 y 1867 [International War, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Parliamentary Parties and Peruvian Politics between 1865-1867] (in Spanish). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. p. 97.
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