Qualla: Battle of Maipú https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/battle-of-maipu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Maipú https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu Battle of Maipú: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu/ Photo credit Ricardo Hevia Kaluf, Public domain. Two weeks before the battle, the cause looked lost. The Spanish had surprised and scattered the patriot army by night at Cancha Rayada, and Santiago braced for the royalists to march in and snuff out Chile's young independence. Instead, something remarkable happened: in less than two days, José de San Martín rebuilt his shattered force almost from scratch. On 5 April 1818, on a low ridge of farmland near the village of Maipú, just south of the capital, that resurrected army turned to face General Mariano Osorio's Spaniards one final time. By evening the question of whether Chile would be free had been answered, and not quietly.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/battle-of-maipu-wp/66j9-battle-of-maip-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Maipú: The Army That Refused to Die https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu/ Photo credit Parair, CC BY-SA 4.0. San Martín was Argentine, and he had already done the impossible once - leading an army over the high passes of the Andes the year before to liberate Santiago at the Battle of Chacabuco. Cancha Rayada should have undone all of it. Yet the drive for independence never wavered. Wit...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/battle-of-maipu-wp/66j9-battle-of-maip-the-army-that-refused-to-die.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Maipú: The Afternoon on the Ridge https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu/ Photo credit Pedro León Carmona (1853-1899), Public domain. The guns opened around 11:30 in the morning, and for half an hour the two artilleries hammered each other to no effect. Then San Martín sent his infantry forward in columns, holding their fire as they advanced. The fighting swung hard in the center, where Osorio's reinforced Ordó...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/battle-of-maipu-wp/66j9-battle-of-maip-the-afternoon-on-the-ridge.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Maipú: The Cost and the Consequence https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu/ Photo credit Pedro Subercaseaux, Public domain. The end came at the farmhouses of Lo Espejo, where the cornered royalists made their final stand. The Coquimbo battalion threw itself recklessly at the position and was cut down; then San Martín's cannons pounded the buildings until Ordóñez's men, with O'Higgins's militias closin...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/6/j/9/battle-of-maipu-wp/66j9-battle-of-maip-the-cost-and-the-consequence.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Maipú: An Embrace Remembered https://qualla.com/battle-of-maipu/ Photo credit Johann Moritz Rugendas, Public domain. What Chile chose to commemorate, in the end, was not the killing but a moment of joy. When the fighting was done, O'Higgins and San Martín met on the field and embraced - the Chilean and the Argentine, the two halves of a shared liberation. The 'Abrazo de Maipú,' the Hug of Maipú...

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