{"id":3834,"date":"2017-07-26T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-worldhistory\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=3834"},"modified":"2017-09-19T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T16:14:31","slug":"26-1-4-jose-de-san-martin","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-worldhistory\/chapter\/26-1-4-jose-de-san-martin\/","title":{"raw":"Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn","rendered":"Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn"},"content":{"raw":"<h2 id=\"concept_1258\">26.1.4: Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn<\/h2>\r\n<div class=\"brief\">\r\n\r\nJos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn was one of the prime leaders of Latin America's successful struggle for freedom from the Spanish Empire, commanding crucial military campaigns that led to independence for Argentina, Chile, and Peru.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objective<\/h3>\r\nCompare Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn's efforts to Bol\u00edvar's\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\r\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn, along with Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, was one of the most important leaders of the Latin American independence movements.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>His military leadership was crucial in the wars of independence in Argentina, Chile, and Peru.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Born in what became Argentina, San Mart\u00edn mostly grew up in Spain, taking part in the Peninsular War against Napoleon.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>He left Spain and joined the Argentine War of Independence in 1811, a choice debated by historians.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>He provided a much-needed boost to the revolution, mustering the Army of the Andes, whose crossing of the Andes was instrumental in freeing Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>From there he went to Peru, where he fought for several years in collaboration and conflict with Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar. He left suddenly in 1822 for France, leaving the remainder of the war for independence to be led by Bol\u00edvar, who succeeded against the Spanish forces in 1824.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\r\n<h3>Key Terms<\/h3>\r\n<dl class=\"key_terms\">\r\n \t<dt><strong>Crossing of the Andes<\/strong><\/dt>\r\n \t<dd>One of the most important feats in the Argentine and Chilean wars of independence, in which a combined army of Argentine soldiers and Chilean exiles invaded Chile, leading to Chile's liberation from Spanish rule. The crossing of the Andes was a major step in the strategy devised by Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn to defeat the royalist forces at their stronghold of Lima, Viceroyalty of Per\u00fa, and secure the Spanish American independence movements.<\/dd>\r\n \t<dt><strong>Army of the Andes<\/strong><\/dt>\r\n \t<dd>A military force created by the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata (Argentina) and mustered by general Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn in his campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire. In 1817, it crossed the Andes Mountains from the Argentine province of Cuyo (at the current-day province of Mendoza, Argentina), and succeeded in dislodging the Spanish from the country.<\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/div>\r\nJos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. Born in Yapey\u00fa, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left his mother country at the early age of seven to study in M\u00e1laga, Spain.\r\n\r\nIn 1808, after taking part in the Peninsular War against Napoleon's France, San Mart\u00edn contacted South American supporters of independence from Spain. In 1812, he set sail for Buenos Aires and offered his services to the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata, present-day Argentina. After the Battle of San Lorenzo and time commanding the Army of the North during 1814, he organized a plan to defeat the Spanish forces that menaced the United Provinces from the north, using an alternative path to the Viceroyalty of Peru. This objective first involved the establishment of a new army, the Army of the Andes, in Cuyo Province, Argentina. From there, he led the Crossing of the Andes to Chile and triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco and the Battle of Maip\u00fa (1818), thus liberating Chile from royalist rule. Then he sailed to attack the Spanish stronghold of Lima, Peru.\r\n\r\nOn July 12, 1821, after seizing partial control of Lima, San Mart\u00edn was appointed Protector of Peru, and Peruvian independence was officially declared on July 28. On July 22, after a closed-door meeting with fellow libertador Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar at Guayaquil, Ecuador, Bol\u00edvar took over the task of fully liberating Peru. San Mart\u00edn unexpectedly left the country and resigned the command of his army, excluding himself from politics and the military, and moved to France in 1824. The details of the July 22 meeting would be a subject of debate by later historians.\r\n\r\nSan Mart\u00edn is regarded as a national hero of Argentina and Peru, and together with Bol\u00edvar, one of the Liberators of Spanish South America. The Order of the Liberator General San Mart\u00edn (Orden del Libertador General San Mart\u00edn), created in his honor, is the highest decoration conferred by the Argentine government.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h1>Wars of Independence: Argentina, Chile, Peru<\/h1>\r\nSan Mart\u00edn entered the Argentine War of Independence about a year after it started. The reasons that he left Spain in 1811 to join the Spanish American wars of independence as a patriot remain contentious among historians. The action would seem contradictory and out of character, because if the patriots were waging an independentist and anti-Hispanic war, then he would be a traitor or deserter. There are a variety of explanations by different historians. Some argue that he returned because he missed South America, and the war of independence justified changing sides to support it. Other contend that the wars in the Americas were not initially separatist but between supporters of absolutism and liberalism, which thus maintains a continuity between San Mart\u00edn's actions in Spain and in Latin America.\r\n\r\nThe Argentine War of Independence started with the May Revolution and other military campaigns with mixed success. The undesired outcomes of the Paraguay and Upper Peru campaigns led the Junta (the provisional government after the May Revolution) to be replaced by an executive Triumvirate\u00a0in September 1811.\r\n\r\nA few days after his arrival in Buenos Aires, San Mart\u00edn was interviewed by the First Triumvirate. They appointed him a lieutenant colonel of cavalry and asked him to create a cavalry unit, as Buenos Aires did not have good cavalry. He began to organize the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers with Alvear and Zapiola. As Buenos Aires lacked professional military leaders, San Mart\u00edn was entrusted with the protection of the whole city, but kept focused in the task of building the military unit. A year later the Triumvirate was renewed and San Mart\u00edn was promoted to colonel.\r\n\r\nSan Mart\u00edn came up with a plan: organize an army in Mendoza, cross the Andes to Chile, and move to Peru by sea, all while another general defended the north frontier. This would place him in Peru without crossing the harsh terrain of Upper Peru, where two campaigns had already been defeated. To advance this plan, he requested the governorship of the Cuyo province, which was accepted.\r\n\r\nSan Mart\u00edn began immediately to organize the Army of the Andes. He drafted all citizens who could bear arms and all slaves from ages 16 to 30, requested reinforcements to Buenos Aires, and reorganized the economy for war production. San Mart\u00edn proposed that the country declare independence immediately, before the crossing. That way, they would be acting as a sovereign nation and not as a mere rebellion, but the proposal never was accepted. Needing even more soldiers, San Mart\u00edn extended the emancipation of slaves to ages 14 to 55, and even allowed them to be promoted to higher military ranks. He proposed a similar measure at the national level, but Pueyrred\u00f3n encountered severe resistance. He included the Chileans who escaped Chile after the disaster of Rancagua, and organized them in four units: infantry, cavalry, artillery, and dragoons. At the end of 1816, the Army of the Andes had 5,000 men, 10,000 mules, and 1,500 horses. San Martin organized military intelligence, propaganda, and disinformation to confuse the royalist armies (such as the specific routes taken in the Andes), boost the national fervor of his army, and promote desertion among the royalists.\r\n\r\nIn early 1817, San Mart\u00edn led the Crossing of the Andes into Chile, obtaining a decisive victory at the battle of Chacabuco on February 17, which allowed the exiled Chilean leader Bernardo O'Higgins to enter Santiago de Chile unopposed and install a new independent government. In December 1817, a popular referendum was set up to decide about the Independence of Chile. On February 18, 1818, the first anniversary of the battle of Chacabuco, Chile declared its independence from the Spanish Crown.\r\n\r\nFrom there, San Mart\u00edn took the Army of the Andes to fight in Peru. To begin the liberation of Peru, Argentina and Chile signed a treaty on February 5, 1819, to prepare for the invasion. General Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn believed that the liberation of Argentina wouldn't be secure until the royalist stronghold in Peru was defeated. Peru had armed forces nearly four times the strength of those of San Mart\u00edn. With this disparity, San Mart\u00edn tried to avoid battles. He tried instead to divide the enemy forces in several locations, as during the Crossing of the Andes, and trap the royalists with a pincer movement with either reinforcements of the Army of the North from the South or the army of Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar from the North. He also tried to promote rebellions and insurrection within the royalist ranks, and promised the emancipation of any slaves that deserted their Peruvian masters and joined the army of San Mart\u00edn. When he reached Lima, San Mart\u00edn invited all of the populace of Lima to swear oath to the Independence cause. The signing of the Act of Independence of Peru was held on July 15, 1821. San Mart\u00edn became the leader of the government, even though he did not want to lead. He was appointed Protector of Peru. After several years of fighting, San Mart\u00edn abandoned Peru in September 1822 and left the whole command of the Independence movement to Simon Bolivar. The Peruvian War culminated in 1824 with the defeat of the Spanish Empire in the battles of Junin and Ayacucho.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<h1>Guayaquil Conference<\/h1>\r\nThe Guayaquil Conference was a meeting that took place on July 26, 1822, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, between Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn and Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, to discuss the future of Per\u00fa (and South America in general). San Mart\u00edn arrived in Guayaquil on July 25, where he was enthusiastically greeted by Bol\u00edvar. However, the two men could not come to an agreement, despite their common goals and mutual respect, even when San Mart\u00edn offered to serve under Bol\u00edvar. Both men had very different ideas about how to organize the governments of the countries that they had liberated. Bol\u00edvar was in favor of forming a series of republics in the newly independent nations, whereas San Mart\u00edn preferred the European system of rule and wanted to put monarchies in place. San Mart\u00edn was also in favor of placing a European prince in power as King of Peru when it was liberated. The conference, consequently, was a failure, at least for San Mart\u00edn.\r\n\r\nSan Mart\u00edn, after meeting with Bol\u00edvar for several hours on July 26, stayed for a banquet and ball given in his honor. Bol\u00edvar proposed a toast to \u201cthe two greatest men in South America: the general San Mart\u00edn and myself,\" whereas San Mart\u00edn drank to \u201cthe prompt conclusion of the war, the organization of the different Republics of the continent and the health of the Liberator of Colombia.\" After the conference, San Mart\u00edn abdicated his powers in Peru and returned to Argentina. Soon afterward, he left South America entirely and retired in France.\r\n<div class=\"atom__components__figure\">\r\n<div class=\"atom__components__figure__cont\">\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"340\"]<img class=\"atom__components__figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1599\/2017\/07\/18194521\/media_35327_medium.jpeg\" alt=\"A painting of the conference between Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn. The real conference took place inside an office, and not in the countryside as the portrait suggests.\" width=\"340\" height=\"320\" \/> Guayaquil Conference The conference between Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn. The real conference took place inside an office, and not in the countryside as the portrait suggests.[\/caption]\r\n\r\n<div class=\"atom__components__document\"><\/div>\r\n<div id=\"image_35327_text_equivalent\" class=\"atom__components__figure__text_equivalent\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div>\r\n<h3>Attributions<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<div class=\"attribution\">\"Argentine War of Independence.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentine_War_of_Independence\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentine_War_of_Independence<\/a>. <span class=\"attribution-name\">Wikipedia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/div><\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<div class=\"attribution\">\"Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jose_de_San_Martin\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jose_de_San_Martin<\/a>. <span class=\"attribution-name\">Wikpedia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/div><\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<div class=\"attribution\">\"Military career of Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn in Spain.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_career_of_Jose_de_San_Maritn_in_Spain\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_career_of_Jose_de_San_Maritn_in_Spain<\/a>. <span class=\"attribution-name\">Wikipedia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/div><\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<div class=\"attribution\">\"Guayaquil Conference.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guayaquil_Conference\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guayaquil_Conference<\/a>. <span class=\"attribution-name\">Wikipedia<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/div><\/li>\r\n \t<li>\r\n<div class=\"attribution\">\"Entrevista_de_Guayaquil.jpg.\" <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Entrevista_de_Guayaquil.jpg\">https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Entrevista_de_Guayaquil.jpg<\/a>. <span class=\"attribution-name\">Wikimedia Commons<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\">Public domain<\/a>.<\/div><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<h2 id=\"concept_1258\">26.1.4: Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn<\/h2>\n<div class=\"brief\">\n<p>Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn was one of the prime leaders of Latin America&#8217;s successful struggle for freedom from the Spanish Empire, commanding crucial military campaigns that led to independence for Argentina, Chile, and Peru.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Objective<\/h3>\n<p>Compare Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn&#8217;s efforts to Bol\u00edvar&#8217;s<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox key-takeaways\">\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn, along with Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, was one of the most important leaders of the Latin American independence movements.<\/li>\n<li>His military leadership was crucial in the wars of independence in Argentina, Chile, and Peru.<\/li>\n<li>Born in what became Argentina, San Mart\u00edn mostly grew up in Spain, taking part in the Peninsular War against Napoleon.<\/li>\n<li>He left Spain and joined the Argentine War of Independence in 1811, a choice debated by historians.<\/li>\n<li>He provided a much-needed boost to the revolution, mustering the Army of the Andes, whose crossing of the Andes was instrumental in freeing Argentina and Chile from Spanish rule.<\/li>\n<li>From there he went to Peru, where he fought for several years in collaboration and conflict with Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar. He left suddenly in 1822 for France, leaving the remainder of the war for independence to be led by Bol\u00edvar, who succeeded against the Spanish forces in 1824.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"textbox examples\">\n<h3>Key Terms<\/h3>\n<dl class=\"key_terms\">\n<dt><strong>Crossing of the Andes<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>One of the most important feats in the Argentine and Chilean wars of independence, in which a combined army of Argentine soldiers and Chilean exiles invaded Chile, leading to Chile&#8217;s liberation from Spanish rule. The crossing of the Andes was a major step in the strategy devised by Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn to defeat the royalist forces at their stronghold of Lima, Viceroyalty of Per\u00fa, and secure the Spanish American independence movements.<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>Army of the Andes<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>A military force created by the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata (Argentina) and mustered by general Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn in his campaign to free Chile from the Spanish Empire. In 1817, it crossed the Andes Mountains from the Argentine province of Cuyo (at the current-day province of Mendoza, Argentina), and succeeded in dislodging the Spanish from the country.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America&#8217;s successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire. Born in Yapey\u00fa, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left his mother country at the early age of seven to study in M\u00e1laga, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>In 1808, after taking part in the Peninsular War against Napoleon&#8217;s France, San Mart\u00edn contacted South American supporters of independence from Spain. In 1812, he set sail for Buenos Aires and offered his services to the United Provinces of the R\u00edo de la Plata, present-day Argentina. After the Battle of San Lorenzo and time commanding the Army of the North during 1814, he organized a plan to defeat the Spanish forces that menaced the United Provinces from the north, using an alternative path to the Viceroyalty of Peru. This objective first involved the establishment of a new army, the Army of the Andes, in Cuyo Province, Argentina. From there, he led the Crossing of the Andes to Chile and triumphed at the Battle of Chacabuco and the Battle of Maip\u00fa (1818), thus liberating Chile from royalist rule. Then he sailed to attack the Spanish stronghold of Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n<p>On July 12, 1821, after seizing partial control of Lima, San Mart\u00edn was appointed Protector of Peru, and Peruvian independence was officially declared on July 28. On July 22, after a closed-door meeting with fellow libertador Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar at Guayaquil, Ecuador, Bol\u00edvar took over the task of fully liberating Peru. San Mart\u00edn unexpectedly left the country and resigned the command of his army, excluding himself from politics and the military, and moved to France in 1824. The details of the July 22 meeting would be a subject of debate by later historians.<\/p>\n<p>San Mart\u00edn is regarded as a national hero of Argentina and Peru, and together with Bol\u00edvar, one of the Liberators of Spanish South America. The Order of the Liberator General San Mart\u00edn (Orden del Libertador General San Mart\u00edn), created in his honor, is the highest decoration conferred by the Argentine government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Wars of Independence: Argentina, Chile, Peru<\/h1>\n<p>San Mart\u00edn entered the Argentine War of Independence about a year after it started. The reasons that he left Spain in 1811 to join the Spanish American wars of independence as a patriot remain contentious among historians. The action would seem contradictory and out of character, because if the patriots were waging an independentist and anti-Hispanic war, then he would be a traitor or deserter. There are a variety of explanations by different historians. Some argue that he returned because he missed South America, and the war of independence justified changing sides to support it. Other contend that the wars in the Americas were not initially separatist but between supporters of absolutism and liberalism, which thus maintains a continuity between San Mart\u00edn&#8217;s actions in Spain and in Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentine War of Independence started with the May Revolution and other military campaigns with mixed success. The undesired outcomes of the Paraguay and Upper Peru campaigns led the Junta (the provisional government after the May Revolution) to be replaced by an executive Triumvirate\u00a0in September 1811.<\/p>\n<p>A few days after his arrival in Buenos Aires, San Mart\u00edn was interviewed by the First Triumvirate. They appointed him a lieutenant colonel of cavalry and asked him to create a cavalry unit, as Buenos Aires did not have good cavalry. He began to organize the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers with Alvear and Zapiola. As Buenos Aires lacked professional military leaders, San Mart\u00edn was entrusted with the protection of the whole city, but kept focused in the task of building the military unit. A year later the Triumvirate was renewed and San Mart\u00edn was promoted to colonel.<\/p>\n<p>San Mart\u00edn came up with a plan: organize an army in Mendoza, cross the Andes to Chile, and move to Peru by sea, all while another general defended the north frontier. This would place him in Peru without crossing the harsh terrain of Upper Peru, where two campaigns had already been defeated. To advance this plan, he requested the governorship of the Cuyo province, which was accepted.<\/p>\n<p>San Mart\u00edn began immediately to organize the Army of the Andes. He drafted all citizens who could bear arms and all slaves from ages 16 to 30, requested reinforcements to Buenos Aires, and reorganized the economy for war production. San Mart\u00edn proposed that the country declare independence immediately, before the crossing. That way, they would be acting as a sovereign nation and not as a mere rebellion, but the proposal never was accepted. Needing even more soldiers, San Mart\u00edn extended the emancipation of slaves to ages 14 to 55, and even allowed them to be promoted to higher military ranks. He proposed a similar measure at the national level, but Pueyrred\u00f3n encountered severe resistance. He included the Chileans who escaped Chile after the disaster of Rancagua, and organized them in four units: infantry, cavalry, artillery, and dragoons. At the end of 1816, the Army of the Andes had 5,000 men, 10,000 mules, and 1,500 horses. San Martin organized military intelligence, propaganda, and disinformation to confuse the royalist armies (such as the specific routes taken in the Andes), boost the national fervor of his army, and promote desertion among the royalists.<\/p>\n<p>In early 1817, San Mart\u00edn led the Crossing of the Andes into Chile, obtaining a decisive victory at the battle of Chacabuco on February 17, which allowed the exiled Chilean leader Bernardo O&#8217;Higgins to enter Santiago de Chile unopposed and install a new independent government. In December 1817, a popular referendum was set up to decide about the Independence of Chile. On February 18, 1818, the first anniversary of the battle of Chacabuco, Chile declared its independence from the Spanish Crown.<\/p>\n<p>From there, San Mart\u00edn took the Army of the Andes to fight in Peru. To begin the liberation of Peru, Argentina and Chile signed a treaty on February 5, 1819, to prepare for the invasion. General Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn believed that the liberation of Argentina wouldn&#8217;t be secure until the royalist stronghold in Peru was defeated. Peru had armed forces nearly four times the strength of those of San Mart\u00edn. With this disparity, San Mart\u00edn tried to avoid battles. He tried instead to divide the enemy forces in several locations, as during the Crossing of the Andes, and trap the royalists with a pincer movement with either reinforcements of the Army of the North from the South or the army of Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar from the North. He also tried to promote rebellions and insurrection within the royalist ranks, and promised the emancipation of any slaves that deserted their Peruvian masters and joined the army of San Mart\u00edn. When he reached Lima, San Mart\u00edn invited all of the populace of Lima to swear oath to the Independence cause. The signing of the Act of Independence of Peru was held on July 15, 1821. San Mart\u00edn became the leader of the government, even though he did not want to lead. He was appointed Protector of Peru. After several years of fighting, San Mart\u00edn abandoned Peru in September 1822 and left the whole command of the Independence movement to Simon Bolivar. The Peruvian War culminated in 1824 with the defeat of the Spanish Empire in the battles of Junin and Ayacucho.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Guayaquil Conference<\/h1>\n<p>The Guayaquil Conference was a meeting that took place on July 26, 1822, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, between Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn and Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar, to discuss the future of Per\u00fa (and South America in general). San Mart\u00edn arrived in Guayaquil on July 25, where he was enthusiastically greeted by Bol\u00edvar. However, the two men could not come to an agreement, despite their common goals and mutual respect, even when San Mart\u00edn offered to serve under Bol\u00edvar. Both men had very different ideas about how to organize the governments of the countries that they had liberated. Bol\u00edvar was in favor of forming a series of republics in the newly independent nations, whereas San Mart\u00edn preferred the European system of rule and wanted to put monarchies in place. San Mart\u00edn was also in favor of placing a European prince in power as King of Peru when it was liberated. The conference, consequently, was a failure, at least for San Mart\u00edn.<\/p>\n<p>San Mart\u00edn, after meeting with Bol\u00edvar for several hours on July 26, stayed for a banquet and ball given in his honor. Bol\u00edvar proposed a toast to \u201cthe two greatest men in South America: the general San Mart\u00edn and myself,&#8221; whereas San Mart\u00edn drank to \u201cthe prompt conclusion of the war, the organization of the different Republics of the continent and the health of the Liberator of Colombia.&#8221; After the conference, San Mart\u00edn abdicated his powers in Peru and returned to Argentina. Soon afterward, he left South America entirely and retired in France.<\/p>\n<div class=\"atom__components__figure\">\n<div class=\"atom__components__figure__cont\">\n<div style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"atom__components__figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1599\/2017\/07\/18194521\/media_35327_medium.jpeg\" alt=\"A painting of the conference between Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn. The real conference took place inside an office, and not in the countryside as the portrait suggests.\" width=\"340\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guayaquil Conference The conference between Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and Jos\u00e9 de San Mart\u00edn. 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