Qualla: Battle of San Cala https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala 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 San Cala https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala Battle of San Cala: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The village is gone. Where San Cala once stood, in the dry hills of western Córdoba, there is only memory and the name of the battle that erased it. On the night of January 9, 1842, in the middle of Argentina's long and bitter civil war, a column of soldiers bedded down inside a great stone-walled corral here, confident they were safe. They were not. Before dawn the corral had become a killing ground, and within a few years the survivors who lived nearby could no longer bear to stay beside a cemetery so full of the dead. They moved away. San Cala was left to the wind.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/3/w/battle-of-san-cala-wp/6d3w-battle-of-san-cala-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of San Cala: A Country at War With Itself https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. To understand the slaughter, you have to understand the quarrel behind it. For decades after independence, Argentina tore itself apart over a single question: should it be a loose federation of strong provinces, or a unified nation governed from Buenos Aires? Federalists fought U...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/3/w/battle-of-san-cala-wp/6d3w-battle-of-san-cala-a-country-at-war-with-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of San Cala: The Corral at Midnight https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. That column, led by a Colonel Vilela, marched toward the Traslasierra valley and halted near the indigenous village of Sancala. To shelter his men for the night, Vilela gathered them inside a huge corral ringed by high stone walls, a natural fortress against the cold. But he post...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/d/3/w/battle-of-san-cala-wp/6d3w-battle-of-san-cala-the-corral-at-midnight.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of San Cala: What Followed the Killing https://qualla.com/battle-of-san-cala/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Colonel Vilela escaped, fleeing across the desert toward Catamarca, but the war was nearly lost. He would fight on at the Battle of Famaillá, the final defeat of Lavalle's cause, and there his luck ran out. Captured alongside Marco Avellaneda, the young governor of Tucumán, Vilel...

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