SUCRE ANTONIO JOSE DE: (1795-1830) Venezuelan independence Leader and Hero. Statesman and General, also known as the ''Grand Marshal of Ayacucho''.  One of Simon Bolivar's closest friends. President of Bolivia 1825-28 and President of Peru 1823. Assassinated. An excellent and rare A.L.S., `A.J de Sucre´, one page, 4to, Headquartes at Cuzco, 12th January 1825, to a Prefect of a Peruvian department, in Spanish. The letter bears to the upper left corner the printed text ''United Liberator Army of Peru'', and Sucre referring to the reports received dated 7th, and two dated 8th, instructs urgent troops movements, stating in part `..you refer on a further report dated 7th to the troops arrival from Ica. It is also necessary that the… who will be unoccupied arrive very fast. The Hospital has reduced to half, or less than half the number of injured...´ Further again Sucre sends a very urgent order, requesting urgent arrival of troops, and saying `The troops are not in good physical condition, and therefore it is necessary that they come rushing, rushing all those not urgently needed there´ The document bears two circular paper seals affixed to the left front border, one of them showing the Crown coat of arms of King of Spain Ferdinand VII, which could mean that the present letter written and signed by Sucre could have been intercepted. Autograph documents of Sucre are rare in any form after his assassination at the age of 35. Small overall minor age wear, with large remnants of former affixing to the verso, but not affecting the front. G 

 

The present letter is written only a month after Sucre secured the independence of Peru with his victory at Pampa La Quinua, where, in his capacity as Simon Bolivar´s Lieutenant, defeated the Spanish Royalist troops at the Battle of Ayacucho. Although Royalists signed the final capitulation, the military campaign of Sucre continued through 1825 in upper Peru and finally ended in 1826.