Anita Arnon

And he's also very good at gathering intelligence.

You remember I told you the network of women spies who are kind of feeding back information on enemy positions.

But also, he knows if you want to keep this force together, you make sure they're well supplied.

So supply lines are incredibly important to him.

And again, maybe this is the Louverture thing as well.

Do you remember supply lines were so problematic back in Louverture's day?

It will turn out to be a very, very good thing for him.

Now, Lima is hard to get to.

So the place that he hits is a place called Ayacucho.

It's a city in the central highlands of Peru, so right up there as part of the Andes range.

It lies about 550 kilometers or 342 miles, if you're doing English money, southeast of Lima.

But it's high.

It's one of those high altitude places, 3,000 meters above sea level.

And it's going to be hard going again.

And so you have this battle commencing with a very motivated force, but it's hard.

The terrain, as we've described up there, high up, is difficult.

You've got well-prepared Spanish defenses.

And this is really extraordinary.

The revolutionary forces organize into battalions.

They advance under heavy fire because they are very good soldiers.