Qualla: Battle of El Roble https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of El Roble https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble Battle of El Roble: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ One commander rode away from the battle. The other won it with a sentence. At dawn on October 17, 1813, Spanish royalist troops burst out of the dark and fell on a sleeping patriot camp at a ford on the Itata River, a crossing called El Roble, the Oak. The Chilean general in charge, José Miguel Carrera, believed the day already lost and spurred his horse into the river to escape capture. But a young colonel named Bernardo O'Higgins did not run. What he did instead, in the chaos of that morning, would reshape the leadership of Chile's fight for independence and lift him toward the front of the nation's history.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/k/w/battle-of-el-roble-wp/63kw-battle-of-el-roble-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of El Roble: A Plan to Take Chillán https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ By the autumn of 1813, the Chilean War of Independence had settled into a hard campaign across the south, the period later called the Patria Vieja. General Carrera intended to seize the royalist stronghold of Chillán, and he split his army to do it. One wing, under his brother Ju...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/k/w/battle-of-el-roble-wp/63kw-battle-of-el-roble-a-plan-to-take-chill-n.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of El Roble: Ambush at Dawn https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ Sánchez moved by night. He slipped a force across the Itata in darkness and set it on the south bank, east of the patriot camp, while four hundred men under Juan Antonio Olate held the north to seal off any retreat across the river. When the royalists struck at first light on Oct...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/k/w/battle-of-el-roble-wp/63kw-battle-of-el-roble-ambush-at-dawn.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of El Roble: Live With Honour, or Die With Glory https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ Bernardo O'Higgins kept his head. From the first shots he had stayed composed, and now he gathered some two hundred men and ran with them to defend the artillery and build a line where there was none. The captains Joaquín Prieto and Diego José Benavente rallied to him, and a resp...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/k/w/battle-of-el-roble-wp/63kw-battle-of-el-roble-live-with-honour-or-die-with-glory.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of El Roble: The Charge https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ Lifted by his example, the patriots surged forward behind him and drove the royalists into sudden retreat. A musket ball struck O'Higgins in the leg, but he refused to stop. Wounded, he pressed the pursuit on foot, chasing the enemy until they scrambled back across the river in t...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/k/w/battle-of-el-roble-wp/63kw-battle-of-el-roble-the-charge.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of El Roble: The Day That Changed the Command https://qualla.com/battle-of-el-roble/ The deepest consequences of El Roble were political. Carrera's flight from the battlefield was not forgotten. Santiago's confidence in him drained away, and the contrast with O'Higgins's stand was impossible to ignore. Before long Carrera was replaced as commander of the patriot ...

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