Batalla de pichincha con abdon calderon biography

Abdón Calderón Garaycoa (31 July 1804, Cuenca - 7 June 1822, Quito) was a hero of Ecuador's war of independence.

He died at age 17 from wounds sustained at the Battle of Pichincha. Such was his heroism that Simón Bolívar not only promoted him post-mortem but also decreed that in the future the first company of the Yaguachi battalion be reviewed as if he were alive, an honor rarely seen in military history.

Batalla de pichincha con abdon calderon biography

Early life

Baptized in Cuenca on July 31, 1804, he was the son of Francisco Calderón y Díaz, born in Cuba, who was an accountant of the Cajas Reales, an official of the colonial government in Cuenca, and also a martyr of independence, and of Manuela de Jesús de Garaycoa y Llaguno, from Guayaquil, who belonged to one of the most prominent families of the port.

His father, Francisco Calderón, supported the patriot coup in Quito on August 10, 1809, for which he was imprisoned and sent to Guayaquil and then to Cuenca and Machala. Released when he wa