on Saturday participated in the 199th anniversary ceremony of the Battle of Ayacucho and Peruvian Army Day.
This ceremony was held at the Army Headquarters in Lima's San Borja district.
On a day like today, in 1824, one of the most memorable pages in Peru's history was written in the heights of Ayacucho region.
After an unequal confrontation with the troops of liberator Antonio Jose de Sucre, who commanded the patriot army, Spanish General Jose de Canterac —on behalf of defeated Viceroy Jose La Serna— signed the capitulation through which he accepted the definitive withdrawal of the royalist armies from our territory and the long-awaited Peruvian Independence.
The feat of Ayacucho represents to the world the continentality of the Americas' libertarian cause, in which Peruvian forces, together with those of sister nations, achieved the fairest of triumphs by sealing the Independence of Peru and the Americas.