0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">On 13 October
1809 the army arrived with 300 soldiers to point called
Mexico
to the banks of the River Guaitara
against FUNES population, where there was a cable car pass.Ecuadorian forces
came under the command of Captains Ascasubi Javier, Manuel Sambrano, Donoso and
Monteserrin.
Three days later he
ordered a fierce combat with the royalist troops composed of two hundred men of
Pasto and Funes, under Captain Miguel Nieto Pole and Lieutenant Governor,
Thomas Santacruz.
The royalist
troops attacked with such vehemence, that after an hour, beat the Quito.
On October 16, 1809, many months
before in Santa Fe de Bogota blew the battle of July 20, 1810, in Funes had
already delivered the first victorious battle for freedom of Colombia.
Battle of
Sucumbios
The June 12,
1825, in Sucumbios, near the passage of FUNES, generals and patriots Flores
Farfan, defeated the royalist leaders Juan and Jose Benavides, lieutenants
funeños Colonel Don Juan Agustín
Agualongo who was fucilado in
Popayan 13 July 1824.
