Qualla: Battle of Famaillá https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla 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 Famaillá https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla Battle of Famaillá: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla/ General Juan Lavalle had run out of road. For months he had marched and counter-marched across the Argentine northwest, dodging the armies of Juan Manuel de Rosas, trying to keep a dying cause alive. On September 19, 1841, he turned and made his stand on the north bank of the Famailla River, about forty kilometers south of the city of Tucuman. He had perhaps two thousand men. The Federalist veterans facing him, under the former Uruguayan president Manuel Oribe, were hardened and confident. By midday it was clear which way the battle would go. Within weeks, Lavalle himself would be dead - and the long Argentine Civil War would tilt decisively toward the man he had spent his life opposing.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/q/battle-of-famailla-wp/6e1q-battle-of-famaill-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Famaillá: The Coalition of the North https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla/ To understand Famailla, you have to understand desperation. After failing to take Buenos Aires and losing badly at the Battle of Quebracho Herrado, Lavalle and his fellow Unitarian general Gregorio Araoz de Lamadrid had been driven out of Cordoba and pushed north. There, among th...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/q/battle-of-famailla-wp/6e1q-battle-of-famaill-the-coalition-of-the-north.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Famaillá: A Battle Decided Early https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla/ Lavalle had tried to avoid Oribe's main army, buying time to strengthen his own, but at Famailla the two forces finally met. The numbers were nearly even - about two thousand Unitarian soldiers against roughly twenty-two hundred Federalists - and the fighting began at mid-morning...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/q/battle-of-famailla-wp/6e1q-battle-of-famaill-a-battle-decided-early.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Famaillá: A Bullet Through a Door https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla/ What happened next is one of the strange, sorrowful endings of Argentine history. The province's governor, Marco Avellaneda, fled north but was betrayed by his own security chief and executed at Metan. Lavalle himself escaped toward Bolivia with a dwindling escort, harried by Fed...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/e/1/q/battle-of-famailla-wp/6e1q-battle-of-famaill-a-bullet-through-a-door.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Famaillá: The Aftermath https://qualla.com/battle-of-famailla/ Famailla broke the Coalition of the North, and it broke its leaders' fortunes in opposite directions. On the Federalist side, Celedonio Gutierrez would govern Tucuman for the next decade; Hilario Lagos would rise to lead the Federalist party of Buenos Aires; and Oribe would retur...

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