Antonio José de Sucre, Bolivia's first president,…

Antonio José de Sucre, Bolivia's first president, leaves the country for voluntary exile, convinced that "the solution was impossible."

Given troop command by Gran Colombia's Simón Bolívar, however, Sucre routs Peruvian General Gamarra 's much larger force (eight thousand) in a decisive battle at Tarqui on February 27, 1829.