Capitulation of Gualcince
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The Capitulation of Gualcince occurred during the annexation of El Salvador to Mexico, on February 21, 1823, when Vicente Filísola after occupying San Salvador continued with a division and forced him to surrender his weapons and surrender.
Background
[edit]Before the fall of San Salvador, the army evacuated the city, under the command of Colonel Antonio José Cañas; General Manuel José Arce was carried in a bunk, due to his serious illness. In the city of Olocuilta, the Salvadoran Army organizes and forms a War Junta, which decided to go to the city of Granada to help the anti-imperialists, gave command of the troop Colonel Antonio José Cañas, appointing Colonel Feliciano Viviani as Second Chief; they evacuated the city and went to Honduras through Zacatecoluca.[2]
The capitulation
[edit]After Vicente Filísola captured San Salvador he continued with a division after the Salvadoran force under the command of Antonio Jose Cañas,Rafael Castillo and Mariano Prado after a Short Combat the Salvadorans were forced to Surrender and capitulate to the Mexicans in the Town of Gualcince (Located in Honduras).[3] There Filísola not only issued and officers who wanted to leave the province in this way ended the war with El Salvador.
Aftermath
[edit]Arce went to the United States of the North, and from the British establishment of Belize he wrote to Filisola thanking him for his human and generous behavior; but without denying by his expressions the firmness and dignity of his character Delgado remained in a hacienda.
On March 6 the Brigadier Vicente Filísola appoints Colonel Felipe Codallos, Mayor and Governor of the province of El Salvador, and leaves for Guatemala.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Montúfar, Manuel (1853). "Memorias para la historia de la revolución de Centro-América".
- ^ a b Monterey, Francisco J. (1996). Historia de El Salvador: 1810-1842 (in Spanish). Editorial Universitaria, Universidad de El Salvador.
- ^ Meléndez Chaverri, Carlos (2000). José Matías Delgado, prócer centroamericano. Internet Archive. San Salvador : Dirección de Publicaciones e Impresos, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y el Arte. ISBN 978-99923-0-057-2.