Qualla: Battle of Sarandí https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Sarandí https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi Battle of Sarandí: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi/ Carbine on your back, saber in your hand. That was the order Juan Antonio Lavalleja gave his cavalry on the morning of 12 October 1825, near a creek called the Arroyo Sarandí. It was an order built for speed and shock - no time to reload, just ride and cut. Within hours the Brazilian imperial army that had marched onto these grassy heights was broken and scattering across the plain, pursued by the very horsemen it had come to crush.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/0/1/battle-of-sarandi-wp/6f01-battle-of-sarand-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Sarandí: Thirty-Three Against an Empire https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi/ The road to Sarandí began six months earlier, on a beach. In April 1825, thirty-three exiles led by Lavalleja landed at Playa de la Agraciada carrying a tricolor flag - blue, white, and red, stitched with the words Libertad o Muerte, liberty or death. Their land, the Banda Orient...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/0/1/battle-of-sarandi-wp/6f01-battle-of-sarand-thirty-three-against-an-empire.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Sarandí: The Heights Above the Creek https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi/ Stung by Rincón, the Brazilians sent two columns of about a thousand men each to converge and destroy the rebels. Lavalleja tried to keep them apart and failed, so instead he gathered a force of matching size and chose his ground at the tips of the Sarandí creek, in what is now U...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/0/1/battle-of-sarandi-wp/6f01-battle-of-sarand-the-heights-above-the-creek.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Sarandí: Eight in the Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-sarandi/ The Brazilian commander, Bento Manuel Ribeiro, saw the danger in the Oriental position and tried to wheel his forces rather than charge straight in. The maneuver forced Lavalleja to swing his own line from facing south to facing west, and the hurried pivot threw his ranks into co...

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