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Battle of San Félix
The Battle of San Félix was an engagement in the of the War of Independence of Venezuela occurred on 11 April 1817, on the mesa of Chirica in Province of Guayana, over the course of just half an hour.
The Republican forces had been campaigning against Guayana from late 1816, though hindered by lack of a navy. Their goal was to occupy the towns of Angostura and Old Guayana, which would allow them to dominate traffic along the river Orinoco.
Manuel Piar had taken the missions
from San Juan.
He was placed in charge of the battalion at the start of the battle after the death of Colonel José Manuel Espinosa.
Towards the end of the combat he was ordered by General José Félix Aldao to advance through a deep ditch with his infantry battalion of 350 men,
accompanied by a similar number of men from the Mendoza Auxiliary Battalion, to take the artillery battery of the Unitarian Mariano Acha.
Only 157 of the men from the two battalions survived. This battle, and this action