San Martín's army crosses the Andes
1817 · Event
Rather than fight up the fortified road to Lima, San Martín spends three years building an army at Mendoza — then takes 5,000 men, guns and mules over passes higher than Mont Blanc in three weeks, and falls on the royalists at Chacabuco from a direction they thought impossible. Chile is free within the year.
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