Battle of San Mateo (1814)

Battle of San Mateo
	Part of the Venezuelan War of Independence
	; Ricaurte en San Mateo, painting by Antonio Herrera Toro.
Date	28 February 1814 - 25 March 1814
Location	San Mateo, Venezuela10°12′48″N 67°25′21″W / 10.21333°N 67.42250°W
Result	Republican victory
Belligerents
Second Republic of Venezuela; New Granada	Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Simón Bolívar; Vicente Campo Elías †; Manuel Villapol †; Antonio Ricaurte †	José Tomás Boves; Francisco Tomás Morales
Strength
Crichfield:; 1,500 infantry,; 600 light cavalry. ; Clodfelter:; 2,000-2,500	Crichfield:; 2,000 infantry; 5,000 light cavalry; Clodfelter:; 8,000-12,000
Casualties and losses
Lecuna:; 90 killed; Clodfelter:; ~1,200 killed or wounded; Mosquera:; 1,700 killed or wounded	Lecuna:; 800-1,000 killed or wounded; Clodfelter:; ~2,000 killed or wounded, 1,000 prisoners

The Battle of San Mateo was a serie of battles in the Valleys of Aragua in what is now Venezuela, during the Venezuelan War of Independence between 28 February and 25 March 1814.

^ ^a ^b Crichfield, George Washington (1908). American supremacy: the rise and progress of the Latin American republics and their relations to the United States under the Monroe doctrine. Tomo I. Brentano's, pp. 22.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Clodfelter, Micheal (2002). Warfare and armed conflicts: a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000 p.350
^ ^a ^b Lecuna, Vicente (1955). Bolívar y el arte militar formada sobre documentos: sin utilizar consejas ni versiones impropias. Nueva York: Colonial Press, pp. 41.
^ Mosquera, Tomás Cipriano de (2017). Memoria sobre la vida del General Simón Bolívar: Libertador de la Gran Colombia, Perú y Bolivia. Lima: Ediciones LAVP. Editado por Luis Villamarín, pp. 131. ISBN 9781542717526.

[Ref1-1] Crichfield, George Washington (1908). American supremacy: the rise and progress of the Latin American republics and their relations to the United States under the Monroe doctrine. Tomo I. Brentano's, pp. 22.

[Clodfelter_1-2] Clodfelter, Micheal (2002). Warfare and armed conflicts: a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000 p.350

[Lecuna-3] Lecuna, Vicente (1955). Bolívar y el arte militar formada sobre documentos: sin utilizar consejas ni versiones impropias. Nueva York: Colonial Press, pp. 41.

[4] Mosquera, Tomás Cipriano de (2017). Memoria sobre la vida del General Simón Bolívar: Libertador de la Gran Colombia, Perú y Bolivia. Lima: Ediciones LAVP. Editado por Luis Villamarín, pp. 131. ISBN 9781542717526.

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