Translation:Aurora de Chile/28/Troops of the fatherland.

by Anonymous

ARMAS DE LA PATRIA.	TROOPS OF THE FATHERLAND.
DE Quito marchan sobre Cuenca diez mil hombres.[1] El General Montes solo pudo sacar de Lima 400 voluntarios y reclutas.[2] La noticia de la última opresion de Cochabamba es falsa.[3] Goyoneche[4] està en Oruro con 1800 hombres acozado por innumerables Cochabambinos ; una division del exèrcito auxiliador[5] estaba ya sobre su retaguardia.	FROM Quito to Cuenca march ten thousand men.[1] The General Montes could only extract from Lima 400 volunteers and recruits.[2] The news of the last oppression of Cochabamba is false.[3] Goyoneche[4] is in Oruro with 1800 men hounded by innumerable Cochabambans; a division of the auxiliary army[5] is now around their rearguard.

Notes

1. On August 10, 1809, after Napoleon's invasion of Iberia and Ferdinand VII's abdication, a group of creoles, led by the marquis Juan Pío Montúfar overthrew the Real Audiencia of Quito and formed an autonomist junta. This event is known as the Primer Grito de Independencia ("First Cry of Independence"). However, several areas within the audiencia, including Cuenca and Guayaquil resisted, supported by the royalists in Lima and Bogotá. By October 11, 1811, the junta in Quito had declared its independence.
2. The General Toribio Montes was the royalist president (1812-1817) of the Real Audiencia of Quito after the coup, who moved its seat to Cuenca while Quito was occupied by the junta. He would finally retake Quito later in 1812. Ecuador did not finally gain its independence until 1822.
3. In May of 1812, royalist forces defeated rebels in Cochabamba after a protracted struggle. The August 6 edition (2 issues prior) had reported that "Goyoneche habia entrado en Cochabamba, y derramaba torrentes de sangre" ("Goyoneche had entered Cochabamba, and spilled torrents of blood"). While this edition seems to present a conflicting report, it is now known that on May 27, 1812, the royalist army entered the rebel Cochabamba and sacked the city. The only resistance they faced was from a group of women of the town, today honored as the Heroínas de La Coronilla ("Heroines of the Coronilla"), after the hill where they fought and died. It is in commemoration of this event that Bolivia's Mother's Day is observed on May 27. [1]
4. The Count José Manuel de Goyeneche (spelled "Goyoneche" here) was the president of the Real Audiencia of Cuzco and the general of the Viceroy of Peru's royalist troops sent to Upper Peru and the Río Plata.
5. This is the so-called Army of the North, which left from Buenos Aires in the self-governing United Provinces of South America and traveled to Upper Peru (Bolivia) to fight the royalists.

Source

• Scan of original document
• Spanish transcription from Auroradechile.cl