San Lorenzo, the first San Martin combat The last weekend, I went with my family to visit San Lorenzo Convent. In front that, there be a public park called "campos de la gloria". There is a historical place where San Martin fought againts Spanish invation during the colonial period, close the parana river shore in 1813. In thoses years, Spanish ships usually have attackeds to steal a littles villages over the parana river shore. The spanish wanted to steal the convent, but they didn't realice , San martin was waiting they behain the convent. When he saw with the telescopies at the spanish tropes descending in the shore, he order his men to start the figth. The combat took 15 minutes , although the spanish trope had more armament and the double of soldiers, San Martin won the figth because he divided the trope in two blocks and surprise spanish trope. Maybe there was not the most important San Martin combat, but was the first before crossing los andes mountains to reach Chile and Peru , and start "the independece war" and give liberty to Argentina , Peru and Chile