Quinua, an Indian village, is located on the farther side, to the west of Ayacucho, almost square in shape and about a mile in circuit, bordered right and left by deep and rugged ravines. Back of the plain, or towards the east, it slopes off gradually for two miles towards the high road from Guamanga to Ananta, which runs right up to a perpendicular rock and ends there. On the eastern side of the plain is Condorcanqui, on a huge ledge of rock which runs from north to south. On this ledge the royalist army was encamped.
The army of liberation formed in the plain, in front of the Spaniards, about a half a mile away. They were drawn up in close columns and awaited the onset of the royalists. The corps of the independents were stationed in the following manner:
- Cordova's Division, (on the right wing)
- Consisting of the regiment of Bogota,
- " " " " " Pichincha,
- " " " " " Skirmishers.
- Miller's Division (in the centre)
- Consisted of the Hussars of Junin,
- " " " Grenadiers of Colombia,
- " " " Hussars of "
- " " " Mounted Grenadiers of Buenos Ayres.
- In La Mar's Division (on the left)
- Was the Peruvian Legion,
- Battalion No. 1.
- " " 2.
- " " 3.
- Was the Peruvian Legion,
- Lara's Division, (reserve)
- Was made up of Camp-followers,
- " " "" Deserters,
- " " "" Riflemen,
Artillery one four-pounder.
The following account of the battle is abridged from "Historia del Peru Independente."
