He was a military and politician whose revolutionary campaigns were decisive for the independence of Argentina, Chile and Peru. Together with Simón Bolívar, he was recognized as the liberator of America for his important contributions to the self-determination of a large part of Spanish America.

In April 1784, when he was six years old, he arrived with his family at Cadiz, Spain and settled in the city of Malaga. He began his studies in the Royal Seminary of Nobles of Madrid and in the School of Temporalities of Malaga in 1786. He later entered the Spanish army and made his military career in the Murcia Regiment. He fought in North Africa, then against the Napoleonic domination of Spain and participated in the battles of Bailén and La Albuera.

At the age of 34, in 1812, after having reached the rank of lieutenant colonel, and after a short staying in London, he returned to Buenos Aires, where he placed himself at the service of the independence of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata.

He was entrusted with the creation of the Regiment of Grenadiers a Caballo that had his baptism of fire in the battle of San Lorenzo. Later he was ordered the head of the Army of the North, in replacement of the general Manuel Belgrano. There he conceived his continental plan, realizing that the patriot triumph in the war of Spanish-American independence would only be achieved by the elimination of all the royalist nuclei that were the centers of power loyal to maintaining the colonial system in America. 

Named governor of Cuyo, based in the city of Mendoza, he launched his project, after organizing the Army of the Andes, crossed the cordillera of the same name and led the liberation of Chile in the battles of Chacabuco and Maipú.

Using a fleet organized and financed by Chile, and after receiving instructions from the Chilean Senate, he attacked the Spanish power center in South America, the city of Lima, and declared Peru's independence in 1821. He finished his arms race after Produced the Interview of Guayaquil with Simón Bolívar, in 1822, where he ceded his army and the goal of ending the liberation of Peru.

He left for Europe, where he died on August 17, 1850.

In Argentina he is recognized as the Father of the Fatherland and the Liberator and is valued as the main hero and hero of the national pantheon. In Peru he is also remembered as the Founder of Freedom of Peru, the Founder of the Republic, the Generalissimo of Arms and the Liberator of the country. The Chilean Army recognizes the degree of captain.

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